NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
A quantitative model of sporadic axonal degeneration in the Drosophila visual system
Mélisande Richard, Karolína Doubková, Yohei Nitta…·Gaia Tavosanis
This paper develops a Drosophila model of axonal degeneration, showing that light exposure causes progressive degeneration without apoptosis, and that synaptic loss precedes degeneration, with postsynaptic signaling required to maintain axonal structure.
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