The effects of reverse monocular deprivation in monkeys II. Electrophysiological and anatomical studies |
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Authors: | M. L. J. Crawford J. -T. de Faber R. S. Harwerth E. L. Smith III G. K. von Noorden |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Texas Sensory Sciences Center of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 77025 Houston, TX, USA;(2) College of Optometry, University of Houston, 77004 Houston, TX, USA;(3) Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, 77025 Houston, TX, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Monkeys had one eye closed at about 30 days of age for 14, 30, 60, or 90 days, then opened, and the fellow eye closed for another 120 days. The animals then had at least 10 months of binocular visual experience before extensive behavioral training and testing were carried out. In terminal experiments concluded more than 18 months later, microelectrode investigations of the striate cortex demonstrated that there was almost a complete absence of binocular neurons in all animals. The initially deprived eyes (IDEs) dominated the majority of cortical neurons, even when soma size measurements of lateral geniculate neurons indicated that the LGN cells driven by the IDE had not regained their normal size. The monkeys which had significant interocular differences in spatial vision also exhibited abnormalities in the distribution of the metabolic enzyme, cytochrome oxidase (CO), within the striate cortex. These results demonstrate that many of the severe alterations in cortical physiology and eye dominance produced by early monocular form deprivation can be reversed, with recovery of normal cortical function, via the reverse-deprivation procedure.Supported by National Eye Institute grants R01 EY01120, R01 EY03611, R01 EY01139, and EY02520 |
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Keywords: | Amblyopia Stimulus deprivation Reverse deprivation Lateral geniculate nucleus Striate cortex Cytochrome oxidase Rhesus monkey |
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