Retinogeniculate Terminations in Cats: Morphological Differences Between X and Y Cell Axons
- 22 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 218 (4570) , 389-391
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7123239
Abstract
We injected horseradish peroxidase into single, physiologically identified, optic tract axons of X and Y cells in cats and studied their termination patterns in the lateral geniculate nucleus. All X cell axons innervate lamina A or A1 in narrow zones, and some sparsely innervate the medical interlaminar nucleus. All Y cell axons have broad terminal zones in laminae A and C (from the contralateral retina) or lamina A1 (if ipsilateral), and most innervate the medial interlaminar nucleus densely.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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