Aspects of the synaptic organization of intrinsic neurons in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. An ultrastructural study of the normal and of the experimentally deafferented nucleus in the rat.

Abstract

A general account is given of synaptic organization in the rat LGd, with special emphasis on the intrinsic neurons, and the vesicle-containing P-boutons to which they give rise. The account is based on ultrastructural studies of normal adult rats, and of experimental animals surviving from less than one day to more than four weeks following unilateral eye removal or ablation of the visual and peri-visual cortex.