PMID: 18727372Aug 30, 2008Paper

Interhemispheric connections of ocular-dominance columns in cats with binocular vision impairment

Rossiĭskii fiziologicheskiĭ zhurnal imeni I.M. Sechenova
S V AlekseenkoP Iu Shkorbatova

Abstract

We have investigated the interhemispheric connections of areas 17 and 18 in cats with impaired binocular vision (monocular deprivation, uni- and bilateral strabismus). Monosynaptic neuronal connections were studied using microionophoretic injections of horseradish peroxidase in the single cortical columns and analsys of spatial distribution of retrogradely labelled callosal cells was performed. In the cases of monocular deprivation and strabismus, the spatial asymmetry and eye-specificity of interhemispheric connections are retained. Quantitative changes of connections are more pronounced in strabismic cats. In cats with binocular vision impairments, as well as in control ones, the width of callosal-recipient zone is larger than of the callosal cells zone. This may indicate that interhemispheric connections are non-reciprocal in the areas of cortex that are more distant from the projection of vertical meridian of visual field. We expect that there should be morpho-functional in the cells that are providing connections in opposite directions.

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