Duffy Kevin R, Murphy Kathryn M, Frosch Matthew P, Livingstone Margaret S
Department of Psychology, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Cereb Cortex. 2007 Jun;17(6):1283-91. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhl038. Epub 2006 Jul 10.
Previous studies of human primary visual cortex (V1) have demonstrated a significant eye-specific decrease in cytochrome oxidase (CO) staining following monocular enucleation. We have extended these results by examining CO staining and neurofilament labeling in V1 from a patient with long-standing monocular blindness. A pattern of reduced neurofilament reactivity was found to align with pale CO-stained ocular dominance columns. Neurons located within deprived ocular dominance columns were significantly smaller compared with those in nondeprived columns. A spatial analysis of the relationship between CO blobs and ocular dominance columns revealed that both deprived and nondeprived blobs tended to align with the centers of ocular dominance columns.
先前对人类初级视觉皮层(V1)的研究表明,单眼摘除后,细胞色素氧化酶(CO)染色存在明显的眼特异性降低。我们通过检查一名长期单眼失明患者V1中的CO染色和神经丝标记,扩展了这些结果。发现神经丝反应性降低的模式与淡染的CO染色眼优势柱对齐。与非剥夺柱中的神经元相比,位于剥夺眼优势柱内的神经元明显更小。对CO斑和眼优势柱之间关系的空间分析表明,剥夺和非剥夺斑都倾向于与眼优势柱的中心对齐。