GABAB-receptor-mediated inhibition reduces the orientation selectivity of the sustained response of striate cortical neurons in cats

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 559-566

  Allison, John D ^a   Kabara, J F ^b   Snider, R K ^b   Casagrande, V A ^a   Bonds, A B ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 hydroxy saclofen; GABAergic inhibition; Orientation tuning; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYSACLOFEN; 2-HYDROXYSACLOFEN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BACLOFEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; CATS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030138464     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800008233     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. ALLISON, J.D. & BONDS, A.B. (1994). Inactivation of the infragranular striate cortex broadens orientation tuning of supragranular visual neurons in the cat. Experimental Brain Research 101, 415-426.
2. BAUMFALK, U. & ALBUS, K. (1988). Phaclofen antagonizes baclofen-induced suppression of visually evoked responses in the cat's striate cortex. Brain Research 463, 398-402.
3. BONDS, A.B. (1989). Role of inhibition in the specification of orientation selectivity of cells in the cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience 2, 41-55.
4. BONDS, A.B. (1994). Dual inhibitory mechanisms for definition of receptive field characteristics in cat striate cortex. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, 75-82.
5. BONDS, A.B., DEBRUYN, E.G. & DEBUSK, B.C. (1992). Burst length modulation by GABA and bicuculline in cat cortical cells: A substrate for spatial selectivity. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.) 33, 1255.
6. B receptor site distribution in the rat central nervous system. Neuroscience 20, 365-383.
7. CATTANEO, A., MAFFEI, L. & MORRONE, C. (1981). Two firing patterns in the discharge of complex cells encoding different attributes of the visual stimulus. Experimental Brain Research 43, 115-118.
8. CHAPMAN, B., ZAHS, K.R. & STRYKER, M.P. (1991). Relation of cortical cell orientation selectivity to alignment of receptive fields of the geniculocortical afferents that arborize within a single orientation column in ferret visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 11, 1347-1358.
9. B-mediated processes in visual cortex. In Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 90, ed. MIZE, R.R., MARC, R.E. & SILLITO, A.M., pp. 335-348. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
10. B receptor-mediated responses in neocortex of rat and cat. Journal of Physiology 406, 443-468.
11. CURTIS, D.R., GYNTHER, B.D., BEATTIE, D.T., KERR, D.I.B. & PRAGER R.H. (1988). Baclofen antagonism by 2-hydroxy-saclofen in the cat spinal cord. Neuroscience Letters 92, 97.
12. DEBUSK, B.C. (1992). Neural encoding within and beyond receptive fields in cat visual cortex. Doctoral Thesis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.