Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)

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The lateral geniculate (Latin for knee-like) nucleus is a laminated nucleus of the thalamus in which many of the retinal ganglion cell axons in the optic tract terminate. The axons of many lateral geniculate cell neurons terminate in the primary visual cortex, V1.

Geniculo-striate Pathway

Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) – Magnocellular Neuron

Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) – Parvocellular Neuron

Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) – Koniocellular Neuron

Retinal Ganglion Cells

Thalamus

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN). In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_2711

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_2711
Published: 24 January 2024
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