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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 1, 1999, 19(11):4388-4406
Anatomical Correlates of Functional Plasticity in Mouse Visual
Cortex
Antonella
Antonini1,
Michela
Fagiolini1, 2, and
Michael P.
Stryker1
1 W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative
Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of California, San
Francisco, California 94143-0444, and 2 Laboratory for
Neuronal Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Saitama
351-01, Japan
Much of what is known about activity-dependent plasticity comes
from studies of the primary visual cortex and its inputs in higher
mammals, but the molecular bases remain largely unknown. Similar
functional plasticity takes place during a critical period in the
visual cortex of the mouse, an animal in which genetic experiments can
readily be performed to investigate the underlying molecular and
cellular events. The experiments of this paper were directed toward
understanding whether anatomical changes accompany functional
plasticity in the developing visual cortex of the mouse, as they do in
higher mammals. In normal mice, transneuronal label after an eye
injection clearly delineated the monocular and binocular zones of area
17. Intrinsic signal optical imaging also showed monocular and
binocular zones of area 17 but revealed no finer organization of ocular
dominance or orientation selectivity. In normal animals, single
geniculocortical afferents serving the contralateral eye showed great
heterogeneity and no clustering consistent with the presence of ocular
dominance patches. Growth and elaboration of terminal arbor continues
beyond postnatal day 40 (P40), after the peak of the critical period.
After prolonged monocular deprivation (MD) from P20 to P60,
transneuronal labeling showed that the projection serving the
ipsilateral eye was severely affected, whereas the effect on the
contralateral eye's pathway was inconsistent. Optical imaging also
showed profound effects of deprivation, particularly in the ipsilateral
pathway, and microelectrode studies confirmed continued functional
plasticity past P40. Reconstruction of single afferents showed that MD
from P20 to P40 promoted the growth of the open eye's geniculocortical
connections without causing the closed eye's contralateral projection
to shrink, whereas MD from P20 to P60 caused an arrest of growth of
deprived arbors. Our findings reveal numerous similarities between
mouse and higher mammals in development and plasticity, along with some
differences. We discuss the factors that may be responsible for these differences.
Key words:
area V1; optical imaging; monocular deprivation; critical
period; area 17; development; visual cortex; transneuronal labeling; axonal reconstruction
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