Explore: Retrograde Degeneration

degenerates. A related process of dying back or retrograde degeneration known as 'Wallerian-like degeneration' occurs in many neurodegenerative diseases,

Transneuronal degeneration can be grouped into two general categories: anterograde and retrograde.[citation needed] Anterograde transneuronal degeneration is degeneration

segmental demyelination extending proximally; this is also known as retrograde degeneration. Many of the studies conducted that observe alcoholic polyneuropathy

segment. After injury, the proximal end swells and experiences some retrograde degeneration, but once the debris is cleared, it begins to sprout axons and

cerebellum. Loss of anterior horn cells due to anterograde and/or retrograde degeneration. Calcification [55–95%] of the cerebral cortex (especially depths

(1875) and Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism (1880) established him as a leader in the study of invertebrate life histories. In Degeneration he adapted

are broken down by lysosomes. Movement toward the cell body is called retrograde transport and movement toward the synapse is called anterograde transport

The slower and less complete degeneration of inferior olive neurons is most probably a consequence of retrograde degeneration secondary to Purkinje cell

of a car. The amnesic symptoms of WKS include both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The retrograde deficit has been demonstrated through an inability

RC, Green WR (March 2007). "Optic nerve hydropic axonal degeneration and blocked retrograde axoplasmic transport: histopathologic features in human high-pressure