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Parvalbumin immunoreactivity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in adult rhesus monkeys after monocular eye enucleation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Margarete Tigges  and
Johannes Tigges
Margarete Tigges
Affiliation:
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and Departments of Anatomy and cell Biology, and Ophthalmology, Emory university, Atlanta
Johannes Tigges
Affiliation:
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and Departments of Anatomy and cell Biology, and Ophthalmology, Emory university, Atlanta
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Abstract

Immunocytochemical methods with antiserum to the calcium-binding protein parvalbumin (PV) were used to examine the effects of monocular enucleation on parvalbuminergic neurons and processes in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of adult rhesus monkeys. In the LGN of normal monkeys, numerous PV-positive neurons, including the largest neurons in the nucleus, and many PV-positive processes occur in all six laminae. After monocular enucleation, PV immunoreactivity is reduced in the neuropil of the denervated laminae compared to adjacent nondenervated and to normal laminae. PV immunoreactivity of somata in denervated laminae, however, appears to be indistinguishable from that of somata in nondenervated laminae, although neurons in the denervated laminae are smaller in size. Since LGN neurons in denervated laminae have lost their visual input, the functional role of PV in this nucleus may not relate directly to visual information processing.

Keywords

Primate lateral geniculate nucleusDenervationCalcium-binding protein
Type
Research Articles
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , April 1991 , pp. 375 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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