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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
The distribution of acetylcholinesterase (AChe) has been examined histochemically in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the cat and the monkey, and in the cat visual cortex. It was found that in the cat, AChE is most concentrated in laminae A and A1. Lamina C-proper possessed a weak band of AChE in its ventral part. Only restricted patches of activity were observed in the medial interlaminar nucleus. Laminae C1-3 and the central interlaminar nucleus possessed very little AChE. This pattern of enzyme distribution suggests that in the cat LGN, AChe activity coincides with the sites of neurophysiologically recorded X-cells, which are predominantly found in laminae A and A1 and are scarce in the C laminae and the medial interlaminar nucleus. The presence of AChE over neurones in layer VI of both areas 17 and 18 of the cerebral cortex in the cat suggests the corticothalamic pathway as one possible source of geniculate AChE activity. In the monkey LGN, AChE activity was observed in the parvocellular and magnocellular layers. The activity was greatest in the magnocellular layers, which are believed to contain neurones driven predominantly by retinal Y-cells. Thus, for this species the correlation between AChE activity and X-cells does not seem to hold.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
244
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
123-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
The distribution of acetylcholinesterase in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat and monkey.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't