Processing afferent proprioceptive information at the main cuneate nucleus of anesthetized cats.
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Processing afferent proprioceptive information at the main cuneate nucleus of anesthetized cats. / Leiras, Roberto; Velo, Patricia; Martín-Cora, Francisco J; Canedo, Antonio.
In: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, Vol. 30, No. 46, 01.11.2010, p. 15383.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Processing afferent proprioceptive information at the main cuneate nucleus of anesthetized cats.
AU - Leiras, Roberto
AU - Velo, Patricia
AU - Martín-Cora, Francisco J
AU - Canedo, Antonio
PY - 2010/11/1
Y1 - 2010/11/1
N2 - Medial lemniscal activity decreases before and during movement, suggesting prethalamic modulation, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Here we studied the mechanisms underlying proprioceptive transmission at the midventral cuneate nucleus (mvCN) of anesthetized cats using standard extracellular recordings combined with electrical stimulation and microiontophoresis. Dual simultaneous recordings from mvCN and rostroventral cuneate (rvCN) proprioceptive neurons demonstrated that microstimulation through the rvCN recording electrode induced dual effects on mvCN projection cells: potentiation when both neurons had excitatory receptive fields in muscles acting at the same joint, and inhibition when rvCN and mvCN cells had receptive fields located in different joints. GABA and/or glycine consistently abolished mvCN spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity, an effect reversed by bicuculline and strychnine, respectively; and immunohistochemistry data revealed that cells possessing strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors were uniformly distributed throughout the cuneate nucleus. It was also found that proprioceptive mvCN projection cells sent ipsilateral collaterals to the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis and the mesencephalic locomotor region, and had slower antidromic conduction speeds than cutaneous fibers from the more dorsally located cluster region. The data suggest that (1) the rvCN-mvCM network is functionally related to joints rather than to single muscles producing an overall potentiation of proprioceptive feedback from a moving forelimb joint while inhibiting, through GABAergic and glycinergic interneurons, deep muscular feedback from other forelimb joints; and (2) mvCN projection cells collateralizing to or through the ipsilateral reticular formation allow for bilateral spreading of ascending proprioceptive feedback information.
AB - Medial lemniscal activity decreases before and during movement, suggesting prethalamic modulation, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Here we studied the mechanisms underlying proprioceptive transmission at the midventral cuneate nucleus (mvCN) of anesthetized cats using standard extracellular recordings combined with electrical stimulation and microiontophoresis. Dual simultaneous recordings from mvCN and rostroventral cuneate (rvCN) proprioceptive neurons demonstrated that microstimulation through the rvCN recording electrode induced dual effects on mvCN projection cells: potentiation when both neurons had excitatory receptive fields in muscles acting at the same joint, and inhibition when rvCN and mvCN cells had receptive fields located in different joints. GABA and/or glycine consistently abolished mvCN spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity, an effect reversed by bicuculline and strychnine, respectively; and immunohistochemistry data revealed that cells possessing strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors were uniformly distributed throughout the cuneate nucleus. It was also found that proprioceptive mvCN projection cells sent ipsilateral collaterals to the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis and the mesencephalic locomotor region, and had slower antidromic conduction speeds than cutaneous fibers from the more dorsally located cluster region. The data suggest that (1) the rvCN-mvCM network is functionally related to joints rather than to single muscles producing an overall potentiation of proprioceptive feedback from a moving forelimb joint while inhibiting, through GABAergic and glycinergic interneurons, deep muscular feedback from other forelimb joints; and (2) mvCN projection cells collateralizing to or through the ipsilateral reticular formation allow for bilateral spreading of ascending proprioceptive feedback information.
UR - http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6633671
U2 - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2193-10.2010
DO - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2193-10.2010
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21084595
VL - 30
SP - 15383
JO - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
JF - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
SN - 0270-6474
IS - 46
ER -
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