Short-term plasticity in primary somatosensory cortex of the rat: Rapid changes in magnitudes and latencies of neuronal responses following digit denervation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 505-512

  Doetsch, Gernot S ^a   Harrison, Theresa A ^a   MacDonald, Aaron C ^a   Litaker, Mark S ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Denervation; Immediate plasticity; Neuronal responses; Rat; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENERVATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINGER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030448485     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00227956     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Byrne JA, Calford MB (1991) Short-term expansion of receptive fields in rat primary somatosensory cortex after hindpaw digit denervation. Brain Res 565: 218-224
2. Calford MB, Tweedale R (1988) Immediate and chronic changes in responses of somatosensory cortex in adult flying fox after digit amputation. Nature 333: 446-449
3. Calford MB, Tweedale R (1991a) Acute changes in cutaneous receptive fields in primary somatosensory cortex after digit denervation in adult flying fox. J Neurophysiol 65: 178-187
4. Calford MB, Tweedale R (1991b) Immediate expansion of receptive fields of neurons in area 3b of macaque monkeys after digit denervation. Somatosens Mot Res 8: 249-260
5. Doetsch GS, Johnston KW, Hannan CJ Jr (1990) Physiological changes in the somatosensory forepaw cerebral cortex of adult raccoons following lesions of a single cortical digit representation. Exp Neurol 108: 162-175
6. Doetsch GS, Stoney SD Jr, Hauge DH (1992) Convergent inputs to single neurons in two different subdivisions of somatosensory forepaw digit cortex of the raccoon. Exp Neurol 115: 250-259
7. Dougherty PM, Willis WD (1992) Enhanced responses of spinothalamic tract neurons to excitatory amino acids accompany capsaicin-induced sensitization in the monkey. J Neurosci 12: 883-894
8. Dykes RW, Lamour Y (1988) A electrophysiological laminar analysis of single somatosensory neurons in partially deafferented rat hindlimb granular cortex subsequent to transection of the sciatic nerve. Brain Res 249: 1-17
9. Franck JI (1980) Functional reorganization of cat somatic sensory motor cortex (SmI) after selective dorsal root rhizotomies. Brain Res 186: 458-462
10. Garraghty PE, Kaas JH, Florence SL (1993) Plasticity of sensory and motor maps in adult and developing mammals. In: Advances in neural and behavioral development, vol 4. Ablex, Norwood, NJ, pp 1-36
11. Kaas JH (1995) The reorganization of sensory and motor maps in adult mammals. In: The cognitive neurosciences. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 51-71
12. Kelahan AM, Doetsch GS (1984) Time-dependent changes in the functional organization of somatosensory cerebral cortex following neonatal digit amputation in adult raccoons. Somatosens Res 2: 49-81
13. Kelahan AM, Ray RH, Carson LV, Massey CE, Doetsch GS (1981) Functional reorganization of adult raccoon somatosensory cerebral cortex following neonatal digit amputation. Brain Res 223: 151-159
14. Kolarik RC, Rasey SK, Wall JT (1994) The consistency, extent, and locations of early-onset changes in cortical nerve dominance aggregates following injury of nerves to primate hands. J Neurosci 14: 4269-4288
15. Merzenich MM, Kaas JH, Wall JT, Sur M, Nelson RJ, Felleman DJ (1983) Progression of change following median nerve section in the cortical representation of the hand in areas 3b and 1 in adult owl and squirrel monkeys. Neuroscience 10: 639-665
16. Merzenich MM, Nelson RJ, Stryker MP, Cynader MS, Schoppmann A, Zook JM (1984) Somatosensory cortical map changes following digit amputation in adult monkeys. J Comp Neurol 224: 591-605
17. Nicolelis MAL, Lin RCS, Woodward DJ, Chapin JK (1993) Induction of immediate spatiotemporal changes in thalamic networks by peripheral block of ascending cutaneous information. Nature 361: 533-536
18. Rasmusson DD (1982) Reorganization of raccoon somatosensory cortex following removal of the fifth digit. J Comp Neurol 205: 313-326
19. Rasmusson DD, Turnbull BG (1983) Immediate effects of digit amputation on SI cortex in the raccoon: unmasking of inhibitory fields. Brain Res 288: 368-370
20. Rasmusson DD, Louw DF, Northgrave SA (1992) The immediate effects of peripheral denervation on inhibitory mechanisms in the somatosensory thalamus. Somatosens Mot Res 10: 69-80
21. Silva AC, Rasey SK, Wu X-F, Wall JT (1996) Initial cortical reactions to injury of the median and radial nerves to the hands of adult primates. J Comp Neurol 366: 700-716
22. Turnbull BG, Rasmusson DD (1990) Acute effects of total or partial digit denervation on raccoon somatosensory cortex. Somatosens Mot Res 7: 365-389
23. Turnbull BG, Rasmusson DD (1991) Chronic effects of total or partial digit denervation on raccoon somatosensory cortex. Somatosens Mot Res 8: 201-213
24. Woolf CJ, Doubell TP (1994) The pathophysiology of chronic pain - increased sensitivity to low threshold Aβ-fibre inputs. Curr Opin Neurobiol 4: 525-534
25. Zarzecki P, Witte S, Smits E, Gordon DC, Kirchberger P, Rasmusson DD (1993) Synaptic mechanisms of cortical representational plasticity: somatosensory and corticocortical EPSPs in reorganized raccoon SI cortex. J Neurophysiol 69: 1422-1432