Ono Munenori, Ito Tetsufumi
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Japan.
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Japan.
J Exp Neurosci. 2018 Dec 12;12:1179069518818230. doi: 10.1177/1179069518818230. eCollection 2018.
The auditory midbrain is the critical integration center in the auditory pathway of vertebrates. Synaptic inhibition plays a key role during information processing in the auditory midbrain, and these inhibitory neural circuits are seen in all vertebrates and are likely essential for hearing. Here, we review the structure and function of the inhibitory neural circuits of the auditory midbrain. First, we provide an overview on how these inhibitory circuits are organized within different clades of vertebrates. Next, we focus on recent findings in the mammalian auditory midbrain, the most studied of the vertebrates, and discuss how the mammalian auditory midbrain is functionally coordinated.
听觉中脑是脊椎动物听觉通路中的关键整合中心。突触抑制在听觉中脑的信息处理过程中起着关键作用，这些抑制性神经回路在所有脊椎动物中都可见，并且可能对听力至关重要。在这里，我们综述了听觉中脑抑制性神经回路的结构和功能。首先，我们概述了这些抑制性回路在不同脊椎动物类群中的组织方式。接下来，我们关注在脊椎动物中研究最多的哺乳动物听觉中脑的最新发现，并讨论哺乳动物听觉中脑是如何进行功能协调的。
