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To characterize the normal postnatal maturation of ocular dominance columns in the macaque striate cortex and assess how monocular lid-suture impacts this development.

May 1, 1980The Journal of Comparative Neurology

The development of ocular dominance columns in normal and visually deprived monkeys

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SVSimon Le VaySalk Institute for Biological Studies TWTorsten N. WieselLiechtenstein Institute DHDavid H. HubelBoston University

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Experimental animal study demonstrates early critical periods for ocular dominance column formation and plasticity in macaques, indicating experience-dependent cortical rewiring.

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To characterize the normal postnatal maturation of ocular dominance columns in the macaque striate cortex and assess how monocular lid-suture impacts this development.
Studied 26 macaque monkeys across 5 experimental groups subjected to normal rearing, dark rearing, monocular lid-suture at various postnatal ages, or reverse suture.
Assessed physiology using tangential microelectrode penetrations and mapped anatomical geniculocortical afferent distribution using transneuronal transport of [3H]proline and Liesegang silver staining.
Evaluated cell sizes and afferent pathways originating from the parvocellular and magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN).
In normal development, ocular dominance columns in layer IVC segregate progressively from birth to achieve an adult pattern by 6 weeks of age, a segregation that also occurred in complete darkness.
Monocular deprivation initiated between birth and 6 weeks caused marked expansion of open-eye afferents and shrinkage of deprived-eye columns in layer IVC, whereas deprivation after 10 weeks had minimal effect in layer IVC and deprivation in adulthood caused no detectable change.
Reverse suture at 3 weeks reversed columnar size asymmetries for parvocellular afferents, while reverse suture at 6 weeks yielded partial recovery and intervention at 1 year resulted in no anatomical recovery.

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Vay et al. (1980) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a19318fa0353395e957fdef https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.901910102

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Experimental animal study demonstrates early critical periods for ocular dominance column formation and plasticity in macaques, indicating experience-dependent cortical rewiring.

The development of ocular dominance columns in normal and visually deprived monkeys

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The development of ocular dominance columns in normal and visually deprived monkeys

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