wallerian degeneration/griffonia simplicifolia

In the brain of the salamander Pleurodeles waltl, microglial cells were investigated cytochemically with isolectin B4 (IB4) of Bandeiraea simplicifolia after optic nerve transection and during subsequent regeneration. Double-labeling with an antibody directed against the glial fibrillary acidic

Unilateral enucleation of the eye in adult male rats was performed in an attempt to resolve the longstanding controversy as to the nature of the phagocytic cells during Wallerian degeneration in the central nervous system. Previously both resident microglia and circulating monocytes, as well as