ArticleEye and brain2014
Patchy distributions of myelin and vesicular glutamate transporter 2 align with cytochrome oxidase blobs and interblobs in the superficial layers of the primary visual cortex.
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- Differential Myeloarchitecture of Subfields of the Mammalian Auditory Cortex: A Comparative Approach.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2026Review
- Mapping vascular network architecture in primate brain using ferumoxytol-weighted laminar MRI.eLife · 2025Article
- Cytochrome oxidase "blobs": a call for more anatomy.Brain structure & function · 2021Review
- Cortical connections of the functional domain for climbing or running in posterior parietal cortex of galagos.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2021Article
- Immunoreactivity of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2 Corresponds to Cytochrome Oxidase-Rich Subcompartments in the Visual Cortex of Squirrel Monkeys.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2021Article
- Time course of cytochrome oxidase blob plasticity in the primary visual cortex of adult monkeys after retinal laser lesions.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2019Article
- What Does Cytochrome Oxidase Histochemistry Represent in the Visual Cortex?Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2016Article
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Abstract
Blobs are a modular component of the primary visual cortex (area 17) of all primates, but not of other mammals closely related to primates. They are characterized as an even distribution of patches, puffs, or blobs of dense cytochrome oxidase (CO) expression in layer III of area 17, and are now known to differ from surrounding, nonblob cortex in thalamic, intrinsic, and extrastriate connections. Previous studies have also recognized a blob-like pattern of myelin-dense patches in layer III of area 17 of primates, and more recently the vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT)-2 isoform of the VGLUT family has been found to selectively distribute to layer III patches in a similar blob-like pattern. Here, we sought to determine if the blob-like patterns all identify the same modular structures in area 17 of primates by staining alternate brain sections cut parallel to the surface of area 17 of a prosimian primate (
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