Diverse GABAergic neurons organize into subtype-specific sublaminae in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus.

ABSTRACT: In the visual system, retinal axons convey visual information from the outside world to dozens of distinct retinorecipient brain regions and organize that information at several levels, including either at the level of retinal afferents, cytoarchitecture of intrinsic retinorecipient neurons, or a combination of the two. Two major retinorecipient nuclei which are densely innervated by retinal axons are the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, which is important for classical image-forming vision, and ventral LGN (vLGN), which is associated with non-image-forming vision. The neurochemistry, cytoarchitecture, and retinothalamic connectivity in vLGN remain unresolved, raising fundamental questions of how it receives and processes visual information. To shed light on these important questions, us

SUBMITTER: Sabbagh U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8210463 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature