Affiliations: Institut de Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaires (UMR
6187 CNRS), Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France | Laboratoire Homeostasie Cellulaire et Pathologie (EA
3842), Université de Limoges, Limoges, France
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Dr. F. Gaillard, Institut de
Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Poitiers, Faculté des
Sciences, 40 avenue du Recteur Pineau, F-86022 Poitiers, France. Tel.: +33 549
453 853; Fax: +33 549 454 014; E-mail: Frederic.Gaillard@univ-poitiers.fr
Abstract: During the past three decades, many studies have examined the
capacity of embryonic neural grafts (dissociated cells or tissue blocks) to
restore lost functions following various damages to the adult mammalian brain.
Only very few focused on the visual system even if it is the optimal system to
examine the potential of embryonic neural grafts in repairing point-to-point
networks. Collectively, these studies show that, within limits, homologous
sheets of fetal tissue grafted in the occipital cortex of adult rodents
integrate into the host visual circuitry and are physiologically active.
