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Science 31 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5462, pp. 2479 - 2482
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5462.2479
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Necessity for Afferent Activity to Maintain Eye-Specific Segregation in Ferret Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

Barbara Chapman *

In the adult mammal, retinal ganglion cell axon arbors are restricted to eye-specific layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus. Blocking neuronal activity early in development prevents this segregation from occurring. To test whether activity is also required to maintain eye-specific segregation, ganglion cell activity was blocked after segregation was established. This caused desegregation, so that both eyes' axons became concentrated in lamina A, normally occupied only by contralateral afferents. These results show that an activity-dependent process is necessary for maintaining eye-specific segregation and suggest that activity-independent cues may favor lamina A as the target for arborization of afferents from both eyes.

Center for Neuroscience, 1544 Newton Court, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bxchapman{at}ucdavis.edu

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