Murueta-Goyena, Ane https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-6943
Ortuzar, Naiara https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7305-6337
Bulnes, Susana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-0758
Lafuente, José Vicente https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7246-0987
Bengoetxea, Harkaitz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7805-2420
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad del País Vasco
Article History
Received: 24 April 2026
Accepted: 19 July 2026
First Online: 4 August 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval: All experimental procedures were conducted in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive (2010/63/EU) for the care and use of laboratory animals and were approved by the Ethical Committee and Animal Welfare of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) [M20_2020_282]. In line with the 3Rs principles, brain sections from the same animals previously used in related studies were reused when they contained the V1 region of interest; additional sections from the same animals were processed as required for the present analysis.