Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 18, 2026

Cut-loading: A Useful Tool for Examining the Extent of Gap Junction Tracer Coupling Between Retinal Neurons
Published on: January 12, 2012
Retinal projection in a non-visual area after bilateral tectal ablation in goldfish
Abstract:
If, in the adult goldfish, one optic tectum is ablated, the regenerating optic axons from the contralateral retina innervate the remaining tectum, where they form a retinotopically ordered map. The pathway for this induced ipsilateral projection coincides with many of the pathways which normally connect the two tecta, but early in regeneration the optic fibres also enter non-visual centres to which there are degenerating tectal efferent pathways to follow. We have therefore now investigated the fate of regenerating optic axons in goldfish from which both optic tecta have been removed; they are found to innervate non-visual centres, where again they generate a retinotopic map.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Immunogold Electron Microscopy
Anatomy of the Eyeball
Color Vision

