A NOTE ON TRANSNEURONAL ATROPHY IN THE HUMAN LATERAL GENICULATE BODY

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Abstract
The left lateral geniculate body of a man whose left eye had been removed about 40 years previously was examined in thionin stained serial sections. About half of the cells were gone and the surviving ones showed an atrophy of about 32% in large-celled laminae 1 and 2 and about 48% in laminae 3 to 6. This may mean that the cells of the latter laminae are exclusively related to one eye.