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1996-12-30
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NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF EYE-
DOMINANCE COLUMNS
This section shows layer 4C cut
transversely, from a newborn
macaque monkey with an eye
injected. The picture is dark
field, so the radioactive label is
bright. Its continuity shows
that the terminals from each
eye are not aggregated into
stripes but are intermingled
throughout the layer. (The
white stripe between the
exposed and buried 4C layers is
white matter, full of fibers
loaded with label on their way
up from the lateral
geniculates.)
The obvious way to learn
about ocular-dominance
columns in the newborn was to
check the distribution of fibers
entering layer 4C by injecting
an eye on the first or second
day of life. The result was
surprising. Instead of clear,
crisp stripes, layer 4C showed a
continuous smear of label. The
autoradiograph to the left
shows 4C cut transversely, and
we see no trace of columns.