Surprisingly, rats given T cells specific to myelin, the fatty sheath coating neurons, retained three times as many functional retinal ganglion cells as rats injected with other T cells.

• 研究人员将不同形式的T细胞注入视神经受伤的大鼠中，意外的发现，当给予大鼠针对髓鞘（也就是包覆神经元的脂肪鞘）的T细胞，有功能的视网膜神经节细胞存活下来的数量，是注射其他T细胞的三倍。