Journal article
The effects of ablation of visual cortex in neonatal rabbits on the organization of retinothalamic and retinopretectal projections
Brain research, v 466(1)
01 Jan 1988
PMID: 3342329
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Abstract
Primary visual cortex was ablated unilaterally in neonatal rabbits. Following a survival of 2-4 months, retrograde degeneration of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGd) was assessed, and reorganization of retinofugal pathways was studied using methods of anretrograde transport of [3H]proline or of horseradish peroxidase. A complete lesion of primary visual cortex resulted in complete retrograde degeneration of the LGd with no sparing of any class of neurons. The terminations of retinofugal axons in the pretectum and thalamus were compared with those observed in normal animals. No major reorganization of ipsilateral retinofugal projections was observed in either the thalamus and pretectum ipsilateral to the ablated cortex, or in the thalamus and pretectum contralateral to the ablated cortex. However, contralateral retinofugal projections to the thalamus and to the pretectum ipsilateral to the ablated cortex were significantly different from normal. In the thalamus, the projections to the lateral posterior nucleus were expanded in area and increased in density. In the pretectum, the projections to the rostral pretectal areas were greatly increased in area, especially in the region of the olivary pretectal nucleus and posterior pretectal nucleus. However, the density of these projections was not increased relative to normal. Consideration of these results in relation to other published data on the anatomical consequences of neonatal visual cortex lesions, both in mammals which show behavioral sparing following neonatal visual cortex lesions and in mammals which, like the rabbit, show no behavioral sparing, suggests that: (1) behavioral sparing may correlate with patterns of survival or death of neurons in the thalamus and retina; and (2) reorganization of retinofugal pathways is not necessarily associated with behavioral sparing.
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- Title
- The effects of ablation of visual cortex in neonatal rabbits on the organization of retinothalamic and retinopretectal projections
- Creators
- E H Murphy - Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129A M GrigonisT E HaydenD TashayyodM Wilkes
- Publication Details
- Brain research, v 466(1)
- Publisher
- Elsevier; Netherlands
- Grant note
- EY 02488 / NEI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1988L655800004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0023865644
- Other Identifier
- 991014878207804721
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