Multi-unit recording from regenerated bullfrog eighth nerve using implantable silicon-substrate microelectrodes

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-86

  Della Santina, Charles C ^a   Kovacs, Gregory T A ^b   Lewis, Edwin R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Bullfrog; Eighth nerve; Microelectrode; Regeneration; Silicon; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FROG; HISTOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; RANA CATESBEIANA; SILICON; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0030937434     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00159-8     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Akin, T., Najafi, K., Smoke, R.H. and Bradley, R.M. (1994) A micromachined silicon sieve electrode for nerve regeneration applications, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 41: 305-313.
2. de Boer, E. and de Jongh, H.R. (1978) On cochlear encoding: potentialities and limitations of the reverse-correlation technique, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 63: 115-135.
3. de Boer, E. and Kuyper, P. (1968) Triggered correlation, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 15: 169-179.
4. Della Santina, C.C. (1994) Silicon Regeneration-Type Multi-Microelectrodes for Electrophysiology in the Eighth Cranial Nerve, Doctoral dissertation, Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley and San Francisco.
5. Della Santina, C.C., Kovacs, G.T.A. and Lewis, E.R. (1995) Modelling and measuring the distribution of nodes of Ranvier and units in the bullfrog eighth nerve aids in microelectrode design, Proc. Soc. Neuroscience, 1995 Annual Conf., 21: 398.
6. Dodd, F. and Capranica, R. (1992) A comparison of anesthetic agents and their effects on the response properties of the peripheral auditory system, Hearing Res., 62: 173-80.
7. Dunn, R.F. (1978) Nerve fibers of the eighth nerve and their distribution to the sensory nerves of the inner ear in the bullfrog, J. Comp. Neurol., 182: 621-636, 1978.
8. Edell, D. (1986) A peripheral nerve information transducer for amputees: long-term multichannel recordings from rabbit peripheral nerves, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 33: 203-214.
9. Egert, D.J. (1993) The physiological bases of tuning in the bullfrog sacculus, Doctoral Dissertation, Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
10. Eggermont, J. (1993) Wiener and Volterra analyses applied to the auditory system, Hearing Res., 66: 177-201.
11. Epping, W. and Eggermont, J. (1985) Single-unit characteristics in the auditory midbrain of the immobilized grassfrog, Hearing Res., 18: 223-243.
12. Feld, D. (1990) A reverse correlation system for real-time identification of linear filter properties in acoustic neurons, Masters Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California at Berkeley.
13. Feng, A.S., Narins, P.M. and Capranica, R.R. (1975) Three populations of primary auditory fibers in the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana): their peripheral origins and frequency sensitivities, J. Comp. Physiol., 100: 221-229.
14. Frishkopf, L.S. and Geisler, C.D. (1966) Peripheral origin of auditory responses recorded from the eighth nerve of the bullfrog, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 40: 469-472.
15. Gualtierotti, T. and Alltucker, D. (1967) Prolonged recording from single vestibular units in the frog during plane and space flight, its significance and technique, Aerosp. Med., 38: 513-517.
16. Hermes, D., Aertsen, A., Johannesma, P. and Eggermont, J. (1981) Spectro-temporal characteristics of single units in the auditory midbrain of the lightly anaesthetised grass frog (Rana temporaria) investigated with noise stimuli, Hearing Res., 5: 147-178.
17. Hetke, J.F., Najafi, K. and Wise, K.D. (1991) Flexible silicon interconnects for microelectromechanical systems, Proc. of Transducers '91. International Conference on Solid-State Sensors.
18. Hoffer, J.A. and Loeb, G.E. (1980) Implantable electrical and mechanical interfaces with nerve and muscle, Ann. Biomed. Eng., 8: 351-360.
19. Kiang, N.Y.-S., Watanabe, T., Thomas, E.C. and Clark, L.F. (1965) Discharge Patterns of Single Fibers in the Cat's Auditory Nerve (Res. Monogr. # 35), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
20. Kovacs, G.T.A. (1990) Technology Development for a Chronic Neural Interface, Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
21. Kovacs, G.T.A., Storment, C.W. and Rosen, J.M. (1992) Regeneration microelectrode array for peripheral nerve recording and stimulation, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 39: 893-902.
22. Kovacs, G.T.A., Storment, C.W., Halks-Miller, M., Belczynski, C.R., Della Santina, C. C., Lewis, E.R. and Maluf, N.I. (1994) Silicon-substrate microelectrode arrays for parallel recording of neural activity in peripheral and cranial nerves, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 41: 567-577.
23. Koyama, H., Lewis, E., Leverenz, E. and Baird, R. (1982) Acute seismic sensitivity in the bullfrog ear, Brain Res., 250: 168-72.
24. Lefurge, T., Goodall, E., Horch, K., Stensaas, L. and Schoenberg, A. (1991) Chronically implanted intrafascicular recording electrodes, Ann. Biomed. Eng., 19: 197-207.
25. Lewis, E.R., Baird, R., Leverenz, E.L. and Koyama, H. (1982) Inner ear: dye injection reveals peripheral origins of specific sensitivities, Science, 215: 1641-3.
26. Lewis, E.R., Leverenz, E.L. and Bialek, W.S. (1985) The Vertebrate Inner Ear. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
27. Li, B., Mei, Z. and Kubota, K. (1990) Multibarreled glass-coated tungsten microelectrode for both neuronal activity recording and iontophoresis in monkeys, Neurosci Res., 8: 214-219.
28. Loeb, G.E., Marks, W.B. and Beatty, P.G. (1977) Analysis and microelectronic design of tubular electrode arrays intended for chronic, multiple single-unit recordings from captured nerve fibers, Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 15: 195-201.
29. Mannard, A., Stein, R.B. and Charles, D. (1974) Regeneration electrode units: implants for recording from single peripheral nerve fibers in freely moving animals, Science, 183: 547-549.
30. McNally, W.J. and Tait, J. (1925) Ablation experiments on the labyrinth of the frog, Am. J. Physiol., 75: 155-160.
31. Michelsen, A., Jorgensen, M., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. and Capranica, R. (1986) Directional hearing of awake, unrestrained treefrogs, Naturwissenschaften, 73: 682-683.
32. Muller, H. (1976) The frog as an experimental animal. In Llinas, R. and Precht, W. (Eds.), Frog Neurobiology, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1023-1039.
33. Naples, G.G., Mortimer, J.T. and Yuen, T.G.H. (1990) Overview of peripheral nerve electrode design and implantation. In Agnew, W.F. and McCreery, D.B. (Eds.), Neural Prostheses, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 108-145.
34. Plonsey, R. (1969) Bioelectric Phenomena. McGraw-Hill, New York.
35. Rieke, F., Yamada, W., Moortgat, K., Lewis, E.R. and Bialek, W. (1992) Real-time coding of comlex sounds in the auditory nerve. In Eeckman, F. (Eds.), Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems, Kluwer, Boston.
36. Robbins, R.G., Bauknight, R.S. and Honrubia, V. (1967) Anatomical distribution of efferent fibers in the VIIIth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana), Acta Oto-Laryngol., 64: 436-448.
37. Saburi, M., Yamada, M. and Shigematsu, Y. (1992) A multimicroelectrode system composed of independent glass micropipettes with an eccentric tip structure for simultaneous intracellular recording, IEEE Trans Biomed Eng., 39: 656-658.
38. Tasaki, I. and Tasaki, N. (1950) The electrical field which a transmitting nerve fiber produces in the fluid medium, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 5: 335-342.
39. van Dijk, P., Wit, H., Segenhout, J. and Tubis, A. (1994) Wiener kernel analysis of inner ear function in the American bullfrog, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95: 904-919.
40. Worgotter, F. et al. (1986) An on-line spike form discriminator for extracellular recordings based on an analog correlation technique, J. Neurosci. Methods, 17: 141-151.
41. Yu, X. (1991) Signal Processing Mechanics in Bullfrog Ear Inferred from Neural Spike Trains, Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
42. Yu, X., Lewis, E. and Feld, D. (1991) Seismic and auditory tuning curves from bullfrog saccular and amphibian papillar axons, J. Comp. Physiol., A, 169: 241-248.