逆向激活揭示了豚鼠初级听觉皮层到下丘中央核的音频拓扑组织投射。

Antidromic activation reveals tonotopically organized projections from primary auditory cortex to the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus in guinea pig.

作者信息

Lim Hubert H, Anderson David J

机构信息

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122, USA.

出版信息

J Neurophysiol. 2007 Feb;97(2):1413-27. doi: 10.1152/jn.00384.2006. Epub 2006 Dec 6.

Abstract

The inferior colliculus (IC) is highly modulated by descending projections from higher auditory and nonauditory centers. Traditionally, corticofugal fibers were believed to project mainly to the extralemniscal IC regions. However, there is some anatomical evidence suggesting that a substantial number of fibers from the primary auditory cortex (A1) project into the IC central nucleus (ICC) and appear to be tonotopically organized. In this study, we used antidromic stimulation combined with other electrophysiological techniques to further investigate the spatial organization of descending fibers from A1 to the ICC in ketamine-anesthetized guinea pigs. Based on our findings, corticofugal fibers originate predominantly from layer V of A1, are amply scattered throughout the ICC and only project to ICC neurons with a similar best frequency (BF). This strict tonotopic pattern suggests that these corticofugal projections are involved with modulating spectral features of sound. Along the isofrequency dimension of the ICC, there appears to be some differences in projection patterns that depend on BF region and possibly isofrequency location within A1 and may be indicative of different descending coding strategies. Furthermore, the success of the antidromic stimulation method in our study demonstrates that it can be used to investigate some of the functional properties associated with corticofugal projections to the ICC as well as to other regions (e.g., medial geniculate body, cochlear nucleus). Such a method can address some of the limitations with current anatomical techniques for studying the auditory corticofugal system.

摘要

下丘(IC)受到来自更高听觉和非听觉中枢的下行投射的高度调制。传统上,人们认为皮质离心纤维主要投射到外侧丘系外的IC区域。然而,有一些解剖学证据表明,来自初级听觉皮层(A1)的大量纤维投射到IC中央核(ICC),并且似乎呈音频拓扑组织。在本研究中,我们使用逆向刺激结合其他电生理技术,进一步研究在氯胺酮麻醉的豚鼠中从A1到ICC的下行纤维的空间组织。基于我们的发现,皮质离心纤维主要起源于A1的第V层,广泛散布于整个ICC,并且仅投射到具有相似最佳频率(BF)的ICC神经元。这种严格的音频拓扑模式表明,这些皮质离心投射参与调节声音的频谱特征。沿着ICC的等频率维度,投射模式似乎存在一些差异,这些差异取决于BF区域以及A1内可能的等频率位置,并且可能表明不同的下行编码策略。此外,我们研究中逆向刺激方法的成功表明,它可用于研究与投射到ICC以及其他区域(例如内侧膝状体、耳蜗核)的皮质离心投射相关的一些功能特性。这种方法可以解决当前用于研究听觉皮质离心系统的解剖学技术的一些局限性。

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