Saadé N E, Frangieh A S, Atweh S F, Jabbur S J
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Brain Res. 1989 May 8;486(2):399-402. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)90532-5.
In decerebrate-decerebellate cats with cervical spinal cuts sparing only the dorsal columns (DCs), activation of one DC modulates sound-evoked discharges of neurons in both dorsal cochlear nuclei. In a sample of 50 neurons, 34% were excited or facilitated, 12% were inhibited and 54% were not affected by DC stimulation. This modulation appears to be mediated through direct projections from the dorsal column nuclei to the dorsal cochlear nuclei.