Ventral lateral geniculate nucleus projects to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1575-1578

  Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Wu, Rile ^a   Onozuka, Minoru ^b   Itoh, Kazuo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrageniculate; Geniculate; Subcortical visual pathway; Vision; Visual nuclei; W cell pathway

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; NERVE NET; NEURONS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 28944449541     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000180147.22139.6f     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Guillery RW. The laminar distribution of retinal fibers in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat: a new interpretation. J Comp Neurol 1970; 138:339-368.
2. Hickey TL, Guillery RW. An autoradiographic study of retinogeniculate pathways in the cat and the fox. J Comp Neurol 1974; 156:239-253.
3. LeVay S, Gilbert CD. Laminar patterns of geniculocortical projection in the cat. Brain Res 1976; 113:1-19.
4. Leventhal AG. Evidence that the different classes of relay cells of the cat's lateral geniculate nucleus terminate in different layers of the striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 1979; 37:349-372.
5. Tong L, Kalil RE, Spear PD. Thalamic projections to visual areas of the middle suprasylvian sulcus in the cat. J Comp Neurol 1982; 212:103-117.
6. Wilson PD, Stone J. Evidence of W-cell input to the cat's visual cortex via the C laminae of the lateral geniculate nucleus. Brain Res 1975; 92:472-478.
7. Kawano J. Cortical projections of the parvocellular laminae C of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat: an anterograde wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase study. J Comp Neurol 1998; 392:439-457.
8. Leventhal AG. Evidence that the different classes of relay cells of the cat's lateral geniculate nucleus terminate in different layers of the striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 1979; 37:349-372.
9. Nakamura H, Kawamura S. The ventral lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat: thalamic and commissural connections revealed by the use of WGA-HRP transport. J Comp Neurol 1988; 277:509-528.
10. Nakamura H, Itoh K. Cytoarchitectonic and connectional organization of the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat. J Comp Neurol 2004; 473:439-462.
11. Higo S, Kawamura S. Zonal organization of the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat: cholera toxin mapping. J Comp Neurol 1999; 415:17-32.
12. Nakamura H, Itoh K. Erratum. J Comp Neurol 2005 (in press).
13. Mesulam MM. Tetramethyl benzidine for horseradish peroxidase neurohistochemistry: a non-carcinogenic blue reaction product with superior sensitivity for visualizing neural afferents and efferents. J Histochem Cytochem 1978; 26:106-117.
14. Guillery RW, Geisert EE Jr, Polly EH, Mason CA. An analysis of the retinal afferents to the cat's medial interlaminar nucleus and to its rostral thalamic extension, the 'geniculate wing'. J Comp Neurol 1980; 194: 117-142.
15. Torrealba F, Partlow GD, Guillery RW. Organization of the projection from the superior colliculus to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat. Neuroscience 1981; 6:1341-1360.
16. Kawamura S, Fukushima N, Hattori S, Kudo M. Laminar segregation of cells of origin of ascending projections from the superficial layers of the superior colliculus in the cat. Brain Res 1980; 184:486-490.
17. Kanaseki T, Sprague JM. Anatomical organization of pretectal nuclei and tectal laminae in the cat. J Comp Neurol 1974; 158:319-338.
18. Itoh K, Conley M, Diamond IT. Different distribution of large and small retinal ganglion cells in the cat after HRP injections of single layers of the lateral geniculate body and the superior colliculus. Brain Res 1981; 207:147-152.
19. Hale PT, Sefton AJ. A comparison of the visual and electrical response properties of cells in the dorsal and ventral lateral geniculate nuclei. Brain Res 1978; 153:591-595.
20. Hughes CP, Ater SB. Receptive field properties in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat. Brain Res 1977; 132:163-166.
21. Spear PD, Smith DC, Williams LL. Visual receptive-field properties of single neurons in cat's ventral lateral geniculate nucleus. J Neurophysiol 1977; 40:390-409.