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The Significance of Antidromic Potentiation and Induced Activity in the Retina

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Our work on the role of the centrifugal gamma fibres to the muscle spindles in the late forties and early fifties made me consider centrifugal fibres to the mammalian eye. RAMON Y CAJAL (1) has reported the existence of such fibres in the retina of the dog and I did not think it very likely that he could have been mistaken. Others have since shown less faith in the Old Master, but in the laboratory of another highly competent histologist (POWELL) centrifugal fibres have again been found in the optic nerve of the cat. I quote: “These electron microscopic observations of the retina following lesions of the central visual pathway may be accepted as valid evidence for the presence of centrifugal fibres to the retina in the mammal” (BROOKE, DOWNER and POWELL (2)).

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  1. The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, S-104 01, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ragnar Granit

  2. The Kerckhoff Institute of the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, D-6350, Bad Nauheim, W. Germany

    Ragnar Granit

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  1. College of Optometry, University of Houston, 77004, Houston, Texas, USA

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Granit, R. (1978). The Significance of Antidromic Potentiation and Induced Activity in the Retina. In: Cool, S.J., Smith, E.L. (eds) Frontiers in Visual Science. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35397-3_1

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