title: Distribution of retinal axons within the lateral hypothalamic area.
abstract: Intraocular injections of tritiated leucine were performed in normal and in unilaterally enucleated adult albino rats. Light microscopical evaluation of the autoradiograms revealed evidence for retinal afferents to distribute within a rather circumscribed area of the lateral hypothalamus. The silver grains were consistently, however, observed only in the group of enucleated animals, indicating differential transport under basic and experimental conditions.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D001369:Axons / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008474:Medial Forebrain Bundle / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D051381:Rats; D012160:Retina / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D013495:Supraoptic Nucleus / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology