Study Identifies a Signaling Cascade Behind Retina Regeneration in Zebrafish
12/26/2022
Experts at University of Michigan Medical School are investigating how Muller glial cells, responsible for regenerating a damaged zebrafish retina, acquire stem cell properties with the hope of eventually developing techniques to encourage human retinas to regenerate.
Building on their work that identified the cells, a new study reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, led by postdoctoral fellow Sumitra Mitra, PhD, and research lab specialist Sulochana Devi, PhD, in the lab of Daniel Goldman, PhD, investigates whether cells other than dying neurons influence Muller glia’s regenerative response.