Headon M P, Sloper J J, Hiorns R W, Powell T P
Brain Res. 1985 Feb;350(1-2):51-6. doi: 10.1016/0165-3806(85)90249-4.
Measurements of cell area have been made in the lateral geniculate nuclei (LGNs) of 18 normal rhesus monkeys aged from 8 days to fully adult. There is much less variability between individual animals than had been thought from measurements of undeprived cells in experimental animals following visual deprivation. It is therefore possible to make reliable comparisons of cell size between different animals. There is no change in size of cells in the parvocellular laminae between 8 days of age and adulthood, although cells in the magnocellular laminae grow a little. In the primate, unlike the cat, the period of maximum sensitivity to visual deprivation does not correspond to a period of rapid cell growth in the LGN.
对18只年龄从8天到完全成年的正常恒河猴的外侧膝状核（LGNs）进行了细胞面积测量。与视觉剥夺后实验动物中未受剥夺细胞的测量结果相比，个体动物之间的变异性要小得多。因此，有可能在不同动物之间对细胞大小进行可靠的比较。在8天龄至成年期之间，小细胞层中的细胞大小没有变化，尽管大细胞层中的细胞略有生长。在灵长类动物中，与猫不同，对视觉剥夺的最大敏感时期并不对应于外侧膝状核中细胞快速生长的时期。
