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The targeting of isthmotectal axons in the Xenopus binocular pathway is guided by both activity-dependent cues and activity-independent cues. Abnormal visual activity induced by unilateral eye rotation overrides activity-independent cues and causes isthmotectal axons to arborize at new locations during a critical period of development that ends approximately 3 months postmetamorphosis (PM). Horseradish peroxidase staining of isthmotectal axons reveals that they normally run rostrocaudally in the tectum; in contrast, those axons in animals with early eye rotation have circuitous trajectories. In this paper, by studying the trajectories and branching patterns of isthmotectal axons at different times after eye rotation, we aimed to investigate when and how activity cues determine the projection pattern of isthmotectal axons. As suggested by electrophysiological recording, isthmotectal axons initially grow normally and make arbors according to activity-independent cues despite the presence of abnormal visual input. Our findings demonstrate that the development of abnormal trajectories starts by 2 weeks PM in response to eye rotation and is a protracted process. It begins in the tectal regions in which the initial connections of isthmotectal axons are first formed according to activity-independent cues. At transitional stages (5 and 10 weeks), axons with arbors at two different locations are observed, with locations corresponding to the old and new termination sites, respectively. Later, at 10 weeks of age, the fainter horseradish peroxidase staining in arbors at old termination sites suggests that the older arbors are undergoing withdrawal.
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