title: Parabigeminal, pretectal and hypothalamic afferents to rat's dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. Comparison between albino and pigmented strains.
abstract: In adult pigmented and albino rats different fluorescent dyes were injected into the dorsal lateral geniculate nuclei of opposite sides. Differences between the strains occur mainly in parabigemino-geniculate and pretecto-geniculate projections. Both the major contralateral and the minor ipsilateral parabigemino-geniculate projections in albinos were clearly smaller then those in pigmented rats. In pigmented rats but not in albinos the parabigemino-geniculate projections originated mainly from the region where the vertical meridian is represented and contained a small number of neurones projecting bilaterally. In each strain, a small number of retrogradely labelled neurones was found in the ipsilateral and contralateral lateral hypothalami.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Turlejski
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Djavadian
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dreher
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010858:Pigmentation; D011301:Preoptic Area / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes