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Monocular enucleation reduces immunoreactivity to the calcium-binding protein calbindin 28 kD in the Rhesus monkey lateral geniculate nucleus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

R. Ranney Mize ,
Qian Luo  and
Margarete Tigges
R. Ranney Mize
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, The Health Science Center, Memphis
Qian Luo
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, The Health Science Center, Memphis
Margarete Tigges
Affiliation:
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Ophthalmology, Emory University, Atlanta
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Abstract

The calcium-binding proteins calbindin (CaBP) and parvalbumin (PV) are important in regulating intracellular calcium in brain cells. PV immunoreactivity is reduced by enucleation in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and by enucleation and visual deprivation in the striate cortex of adult monkeys. The effects of enucleation and visual deprivation on CaBP immunoreactivity in the LGN are not known. We therefore have studied cells and neuropil in the LGN that are labeled by antibodies to CaBP in normal and visually deprived Rhesus monkeys to determine if there is an effect on this calcium-binding protein. One group of monkeys had one eye removed 2 weeks to 4.3 years before sacrifice. A second group had one eye occluded with opaque lenses from infancy without enucleation. A final group had one eye occluded long-term followed by short-term enucleation 2 weeks before sacrifice.

In normal monkeys, CaBP-immunoreactive neurons were found throughout the LGN. They were sparsely distributed within the six main laminae, and more densely distributed within layer S and the interlaminar zones (ILZ). The labeled ILZ neurons had a distinct morphology, with fusiform somata and elaborate dendritic trees that were confined primarily to the ILZ. Most CaBP-labeled neurons in the main layers had dendrites that radiated in all directions from the soma. ILZ and main layer cells labeled by CaBP thus probably represent two different cell types.

Monocular enucleation with or without occlusion produced a significant reduction in antibody labeling in the deafferented laminae. Field measures revealed an average 11.5% reduction in optical density in each deafferented lamina compared to its adjacent, nondeprived layer. The differences in field optical density between deprived and nondeprived layers were statistically significant. CaBP neurons were still visible, but the optical density of antibody labeling in these cells also was reduced. Occlusion without enucleation had no effect. Thus, deafferentation, but not light deprivation, reduces concentrations of CaBP in monkey LGN. This effect is different than that seen in striate cortex of adult monkeys, where visual deprivation as well as enucleation alters CaBP immunoreactivity.

Keywords

CalciumImmunocytochemistryVisual pathwaysEnucleationOcclusion
Type
Research Articles
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , November 1992 , pp. 471 - 482
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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