Thalamic commissural connections in the cat

doi:10.1016/0304-3940(84)90041-7

Neuroscience Letters

Volume 44, Issue 3, 24 February 1984, Pages 311-316

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Abstract

In order to identify possible connections between the two thalami injections of wheat germ agglutinin-coupled horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) were made unilaterally in the thalamus of adult cats. Except for the ventral lateral geniculate body, the nucleus reticularis thalami (R) is the only thalamic structure which shows labeled cells bilaterally following multiple unilateral thalamic injections of WGA-HRP. Furthermore, it appears that the nucleus ventralis medialis and adjoining ventralis lateralis is one main - and possibly sole - recipient area of a bilateral input from R.

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