Enriched Environment Protects the Optic Nerve from Early Diabetes-Induced Damage in Adult Rats.

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of reduced visual acuity and acquired blindness. Axoglial alterations of the distal (close to the chiasm) optic nerve (ON) could be the first structural change of the visual pathway in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes in rats. We analyzed the effect of en...

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Main Authors: Damián Dorfman, Marcos L Aranda, Ruth E Rosenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4552300?pdf=render