Line of Gennari

Brain: Line of Gennari
Cerebral cortex. To the left, the groups of cells; to the right, the systems of fibers. Quite to the left of the figure a sensory nerve fiber is shown.
Micrograph showing the visual cortex (predominantly pink). The blue, horizontal band in the lower half of the image are the bands of Baillarger / the line of Gennari. Subcortical white matter (predominantly blue) is seen at the very bottom of the image. HE-LFB stain.
Latin	stria occipitalis laminae granularis internae isocorticis
Gray's	subject #189 846
NeuroNames	ancil-163

In the human brain, the stria of Gennari (also called the "band" or "line" of Gennari) is a band of myelinated axons projecting into layer 4B of the primary visual cortex from layer 4Cα. This formation is visible to the naked eye, and is coterminous with area V1. Although other species have areas which are designated primary visual cortex, some (if not all) lack a stria of Gennari.^[1]

External links

• BrainMaps at UCDavis Band%20of%20Gennari

References

1. ^ Zilles and Wree. Isocortex in Paxinos (Ed.) The Rat Nervous System, 1985.