The accessory optic fiber system of the golden hamster with special reference to retinohypothalamic projection
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Anatomical Record
- Vol. 186 (3), 451-459
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1091860310
Abstract
The hamster accessory optic fiber system has been investigated with the use of de Olmos-Ingram and Fink-Heimer silver methods following the production of unilateral ocular enucleation. It was found that this fiber system consists of both crossed and uncrossed inferior and superior fasciculi. The fibers of the inferior fasciculus (anterior accessory optic tract) run along the medial edge of the cerebral peduncle and terminate within the medial terminal nucleus of the accessory optic system. The fibers of the superior fasciculus (posterior accessory optic tract) leave the main optic tract, pass superficially over the medial geniculate nucleus and the cerebral peduncle; they synapse within the dorsal, the lateral and the medial terminal accessory optic nuclei. The presence of a retinohypothalamic tract could not be confirmed.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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