Abstract
The present study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of monocular enucleation on the calbindin-D 28k (CB) and c-Fos immunoreactive (IR) neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) complex of adult rats. The enucleation resulted in neuronal degeneration and decrease of neurons in the LGN complex. Our study demonstrated a decrease of CB-IR neuronal density on the contralateral side of the ventral (vLGN) and dorsal LGN (dLGN) until 12 weeks post-enucleation (PE). On the ipsilateral side, CB-IR neuronal density in the dLGN and vLGN showed significant and continuous decrease until 48 and 12 weeks PE, respectively. In an additional experiment, c-Fos-IR neurons were increased at 2 days PE in the vLGN with ipsilateral predominance. At 7 days, c-Fos-IR neurons on the ipsilateral vLGN were still higher than those of pre-enucleated rats. The present results suggest that monocular enucleation affects the expression of the CB and c-Fos in the LGN complex. It is indicated that these may play an important role in the neuronal degeneration and neuroplasticity of the subvisual system in rats.
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