Retinal glial cells in alcohol-treated chick embryos.

• Autores: Adela Quesada Ruiz, C.E. Chmielewski, J.A. Chmielewski, Francisco A. Prada Elena, A. Jiménez Rubio
• Localización: European Journal of anatomy, ISSN-e 1136-4890, Vol. 5, Nº. 2, 2001, págs. 96-104
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the present study we used electron microscope techniques to analyze the effect of ethanol on the inner layers of chick embryo retinas. We show that these layers are very strongly affected by alcohol during development, with a delay in differentiation, a considerable degree of destructuring of the inner layers, accompanied by a loss of the inner prolongations of Müller cells, and the glial cells' location at the retinal inner layers (inner plexiform layer and optic nerve fiber layer) replacing these degenerated inner prolongations. We performed a count and statistical study of the axonal loss from the optic nerve fiber layer of the retinas of ethanol-treated embryos and observed a loss of total axons, mostly of myelinic axons