The proportion of thalamic interneurons in other monkey thalamic nuclei, including anterior, ventral, lateral and intralaminar nuclei, as well as GL, is within the same range as in MD (Montero and Zempel 1986; Hendry 1991; Hunt et al. 1991).
Lauwereyns, J. et al. Feature-based anticipation of cues that predict reward in monkey caudate nucleus.
In a gene transfection study, Liu and colleagues [ 37] reported that the increased connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) expression resulting from transfecting rAAV2-CTGF into Rhesus monkey lumbar nucleus pulposus cells enhanced collagen type II protein and proteoglycan synthesis.
Now, here's an example of a cross-coronal section of the monkey lateral geniculate nucleus.
Interestingly, human posterior cerebellar vermis (a homologue region of that studied by Laurens et al. [ 5] in monkeys) and vestibular nuclei appear to be involved in combining pictorial information with the internal model of gravity to extract gravitational motion from visual scenes [ 7].
It is possible that in MPTP-treated monkeys the thalamic nuclei innervated by DAT-expressing axons are dopamine dennervated (see Pifl et al. 1990 , 1991 for support of this hypothesis) and that a decrease in thalamic dopamine contributes to the pathophysiology of parkinsonism.
The anterior thalamic nuclei in macaque monkeys comprise three major nuclei: anterior medial, anterior ventral and anterior dorsal.
In vivo-labeled SV40 replicating DNA molecules can be converted into covalently closed superhelical SV40 DNA (SV40(I) using a lysate of sv40-infected monkey cells containing intact nuclei.
Similarly, single cell recordings in the monkey LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) analysing a broad spectrum of response properties suggested that effects of aging on the functional properties of LGN neurons are relatively subtle or absent [29] In addition, there appeared to be no significant cell loss in the LGN or striate cortex [28], [30], [31].
The first experimental anterograde study of the cerebellothalamic fibres after destruction of the dentate nucleus in monkey is due to Vogt (Vogt 1909).
