Ultrastructure and immunocytochemical characteristics of cells in the octopus cell area of the rat cochlear nucleus: Comparison with multipolar cells

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-33

  Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cochlear nucleus; Immunocytochemistry; Octopus cells; Rat; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALIA; OCTOPUS;

EID: 0037256934     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(03)80003-1     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. Alibardi L (1998 a) Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characterization of neurons in the rat ventral cochlear nucleus projecting to the inferior colliculus. Ann Anat 180: 415-426
2. Alibardi L (1998 b) Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characterization of commissural neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the rat. Ann Anat 180: 427-438
3. Alibardi L (2000 a) Cytology, synaptology and immunocytochemistry of commissural neurons and their putative axonal terminals in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of the rat. Ann Anat 182: 207-220
4. Alibardi L (2000 b) Putative commissural and collicular axo-somatic terminals on neurons of the rat ventral cochlear nucleus. J Submicr Cytol Pathol 32: 555-566
5. Alibardi L (2001) Fine structure and neurotransmitter cytochemistry of neurons in the rat ventral cochlear nucleus projecting to the ipsilateral dorsal cochlear nucleus. Ann Anat 183: 459-469
6. Bilak MM, Bilak SR, Morest DK (1996) Differential expression of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor in the cochlear nucleus of the mouse. Neuroscience 75: 1075-1097
7. Brawer JR, Morest DK, Kane FC (1974) The neuronal architecture of the cochlear nucleus of the cat. J Comp Neurol 155: 251-300
8. Cant NB (1981) The fine structure of two types of stellate cells in the anterior division of the anteroventral cochlear nucleus of the cat. Neuroscience 6: 2643-2655
9. Cant NB (1992) The cochlear nucleus. Neuronal types and their synaptic organization. In: Webster DB, Popper AN, Fay RR (Eds) The mammalian auditory pathway: Neuroanatomy. Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 1. Springer, New York, pp 66-116
10. Caspary DM (1986) Cochlear nuclei: functional neuropharmacology of the principal cell types. In: RA Altschuler, DW Hoffman, RP Bobbin (Eds) Neurobiology of hearing: the Cochlea. Raven Press, New York, pp 303-332
11. Doucet JR, Ryugo DK (1997) Projections from the ventral cochlear nucleus to the dorsal cochlear nucleus in rats. J Comp Neurol 385: 245-264
12. Doucet JR, Ross AT, Gillespie MB, Ryugo DK (1999) Glycine immunoreactivity of multipolar neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus which project to the dorsal cochlear nucleus. J Comp Neurol 408: 515-531
13. Friauf E, Ostwald J (1988) Divergent projections of physiologically characterized rat ventral cochlear nucleus neurons as shown by intra-axonal injection of horseradish peroxidase. Exp Brain Res 73: 263-284
14. Godfrey DA, Kiang NYS, Norris BE (1975) Single unit activity in the posteroventral cochlear nucleus of the cat. J Comp Neurol 162: 247-268
15. Godfrey DA, Carter JA, Lowry OH, Matschinsky FM (1978) Distribution of gamma-aminobutyric acid, glycine, glutamate and aspartate in the cochlear nucleus of the rat. J Histochem Cytochem: 118-126
16. Golding BL, Robertson D, Oertel D (1995) Recording from slices indicate that octopus cells of the cochlear nucleus detect coincident firing of auditory nerve fibers with temporal precision. J Neurosci 15: 3138-3153
17. Hackney CM, Osen KK, Kolston J (1990) Anatomy of the cochlear nuclear complex of guinea pig. Anat Embryol 182: 123-149
18. Harrison JM, Warr WB (1962) A study of the cochlear nuclei and ascending auditory pathways of the medulla. J Comp Neurol 119: 341-379
19. Harrison JM, Irving R (1966) The organization of the posterior ventral cochlear nucleus in the rat. J Comp Neurol 126: 391-402
20. Helfert RH, Snead CR, Altschuler RA (1991) The ascending auditory pathways. In: Altschuler RA, Bobbin RP, Clopton BM, Hoffman DW (Eds) Neurobiology of hearing: the central auditory system. Raven Press, New York, pp 1-25
21. Josephson EM, Morest DK (1998) A quantitative profile of the synapses on the stellate cell body and axon in the cochlear nucleus of the chincilla. J Neurocytol 27: 841-864
22. Juiz JM, Rubio MB, Helfert RH, Altschuler RA (1993) Localizing putative excitatory endings in the cochlear nucleus by quantitative immunocytochemistry. In: Merchant MA, Juiz JM, Godfrey DA, Mugnaini E (Eds). The mammalian cochlear nuclei: organization and function. NATO ASI series, A Life Sciences 239: 167-177
23. Juiz JM, Helfert RH, Bonneau JM, Wenthol RJ, Altschuler RA (1996 a) Three classes of inhibitory amino acid terminals in the cochlear nucleus of the guinea pig. J Comp Neurol 373: 11-26
24. Juiz JM, Helfert RH, Bonneau ML, Campos ML, Altschuler RA (1996 b) Distribution of glycine and GABA immunoreactivities in the cochlear nucleus: quantitative patterns of putative inhibitory inputs on three cell types. J Brain Res 37: 561-574
25. Kane E (1973) Octopus cells in the cochlear nucleus of the cat: heterotypic synapses upon homeotypic neurons. Int J Neurosci 5: 251-279
26. Kemmer M, Vater M (1997) The distribution of GABA and glycine immunostaining in the cochlear nucleus of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnelli). Cell Tissue Res 287: 487-506
27. Kolston J, Osen KK, Hackney CM, Ottersen OP, Storm-Mathisen J (1992) An atlas of glycine and GABA-like immunoreactivity and colocalization in the cochlear nuclear complex of the guinea pig. Anat Embryol 186: 443-465
28. Moore JK (1986) Cochlear nuclei: relationship to the auditory nerve. In: Altschuler RA, Hoffman DW, Bobbing RP (Eds) Neurobiology of hearing: the cochlea. Raven Press, New York, pp 283-301
29. Moore JK, Osen KK, Storm-Mathisen J, Ottersen OP (1996) Gamma-aminobutyric acid and glycine in the baboon cochlear nuclei: an immunocytochemical colocalization study with reference to interspecies differences in inhibitory systems. J Comp Neurol 369, 497-519
30. Morest KD (1993) The cellular basis for signal processing in the mammalian cochlear nuclei. In: Merchant MA, Juiz JM, Godfrey DA, Mugnaini E (Eds) The mammalian cochlear nuclei: organization and function. NATO ASI series, A Life Sciences 239: 1-18
31. Oertel D, Wu SH, Garb MW, Dizack C (1990) Morphology and physiology of cells in slice preparations of posteroventral cochlear nucleus of mice. J Comp Neurol 295: 136-154
32. Oertel D, Bal R, Gardner SM, Smith PH, Joris PX (2000) Detection of synchrony in the activity of auditory nerve fibers by octopus cells of the mammalian cochlear nucleus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97: 11773-11779
33. Osen KK (1969) Cytoarchitecture of the cochler nuclei in the cat. J Comp Neurol 136: 453-484
34. Osen KK, Ottersen OP, Storm-Mathisen J (1990) Colocalization of glycine-like and GABA-like immunoreactivities: a semi-quantitative study of individual neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of cat. In: Ottersen OP, Storm-Mathisen J (Eds) Glycine neurotransmission. John Wyley and Sons, Chicester, pp 417-451
35. Ostapoff EM, Feng JJ, Morest DK (1994) A physiological and structural study of neuron types in the cochlear nucleus. II. Neuron types and their structural correlation with response properties. J Comp Neurol 346: 19-42
36. Ottersen OP, Storm-Mathisen J, Laake JH (1990) Cellular and subcellular localization of glycine studied by quantitative electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. In: Ottersen OP, Storm-Mathisen J (Eds) Glycine neurotransmission. John Wyley and Sons, Chicester, pp 303-328
37. Ottersen OP, Hjelle OP, Osen KK, Laake JH (1995) Amino acid transmitters. In: Paxinos G (Ed) The rat nervous system. Academic Press Inc., New York, pp 1017-1037
38. Smith PH, Rhode WS (1989) Structural and functional properties distinguish two types of multipolar cells in the ventral cochlear nucleus. J Comp Neurol 282: 595-616
39. Weinberg RJ, Van Eyck J (1991) A tetramethylbenzidine/tungstate reaction for horseradish peroxidase histochemistry. J Histochem Cytochem 39: 1143-1148
40. Wenthold RJ (1991) Neurotransmitters of brainstem auditory nuclei. In: RA Altschuler, RP Bobbin, BM Clopton, DW Hoffman (Eds) Neurobiology of hearing, the central auditory system. Raven Press Ltd, New York, pp 121-140
41. Winer JA, Larue DT, Pollack GD (1995) GABA and glycine in the central auditory system of the mustache bat: structural substrate for inhibitory neuronal organization. J Comp Neurol 335: 311-353