Differences in dispersion of monkey optic nerve fibers according to their terminal layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus.
Dispersion of retinogeniculate fibers in the monkey optic nerve was investigated in relation to their terminal layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) using a retrograde axonal tracer (wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase, WGA-HRP). Dispersion of fibers projecting to the parvocellular layer of the LGN (LGNp) is clearly less extensive compared with that of fibers projecting to the magnocellular layer of the LGN (LGNm) in the most distal part of the optic nerve. The occupation rate of retrogradely labeled fibers projecting from the periphery of the nasal retina to the LGNp increases only 1.2 times in the initial part of the nerve. In contrast, the occupation rate increases up to 1.6 times for labeled fibers projecting from a similar part of the nasal peripheral retina to the LGNm in the same part of the optic nerve. The morphological features of the labeled ganglion cells indicate that these fibers arise from P beta and P alpha ganglion cells, respectively.
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