Distinguishing topography and somatotopy in the thalamocortical projections of the developing rat.
We placed discrete injections of HRP into the somatosensory cortex of the rat on the day of birth and found discrete, ordered patterns of retrogradely labelled cells in the ventral posterior nucleus. We interpret these results as suggesting that topographic relations between thalamus and cortex develop independently of the periphery.
D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000254:growth & development*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013787:Thalamic Nuclei / Q000254:growth & development*