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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 29, Issue 36, Pages 11283-11293Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5757-08.2009
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- European Union [QULG3-1999-01064]
- Human Frontier Science Program [RG0123/2000-B]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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The primary visual cortex (V1) and V2 together form similar to 24% of the total neocortex of the macaque monkey and have each other as their major partners. The major target of the V1 projection to V2 is layer 4, where it forms clusters of boutons, which form asymmetric (excitatory) synapses mainly with dendritic spines (75%). The remainder form synapses with dendritic shafts. The synapses found on spines were often more complex, perforated postsynaptic densities than those found on dendritic shafts. The reciprocal projection from V2 to V1 targeted layers 1, 2/3, and 5 and was formed of axons of different morphologies. One axon type, originating from superficial layer pyramidal cells, had a morphology resembling those of local pyramidal cell collaterals. These axons arborized in layers 1, 2/3, and 5 of V1. Another type of axon, arborizing in layer 1, was slender (0.3 mu m), unbranched, unmyelinated, and uniformly covered with boutons terminaux and formed asymmetric synapses mainly with slender spines. Yet a third type of axon also confined to layer 1, was thick (>1 mu m), branched, heavily myelinated, and formed separate small clusters of large (similar to 1 mu m) en passant multisynaptic boutons that formed asymmetric synapses mainly with large flat spines. These data show the existence of a reciprocal excitatory loop between V1 and V2 that is formed by different axonal types, each with preferred layers of termination.
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