The innervation density of serotonergic (5-HT) fibers varies in different subdivisions of the cat lateral geniculate nucleus complex.
The innervation density of serotonin (5-HT)-immunoreactive fibers, identified using an antibody to 5-HT, was found to differ in the 4 subdivisions of the cat lateral geniculate nucleus complex (LGN). The mean density (fiber length per unit area) of anti-5-HT-stained fibers was highest in the ventral LGN (0.062 micron per micron 2), moderate in the medial interlaminar nucleus (MIN) and the parvicellular C laminae of the dorsal LGN (0.039-0.040 per micron 2), and lowest in the A and magnocellular C laminae of the dorsal LGN (0.020 per micron 2). The fiber density in MIN was particularly dense along the medial edge of the nucleus, a region called the geniculate wing. The heaviest serotonin innervation is thus found in geniculate structures receiving input from W-type retinal ganglion cells and lightest in structures receiving X and Y input.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.
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D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012701:Serotonin / Q000502:physiology*
D012701:Serotonin