Axonal pathways and projection levels of anterior semicircular canal nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 406, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-5

  Kitajima, Naoharu ^a   Sugita Kitajima, Akemi ^a,b   Bai, Rishu ^a   Sasaki, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Sato, Hitoshi ^a   Imagawa, Midori ^a   Kawamoto, Eiichi ^a   Suzuki, Mamoru ^a   Uchino, Yoshio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior semicircular canal; Head movement; Vestibuloocular reflex; Vestibulospinal reflex; Vestibulospinal tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CAT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; MEDIAL VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPINAL NERVE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 33748793681     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.024     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Akaike T., Fanardjian V.V., Ito M., Kumada M., and Nakajima H. Electrophysiological analysis of the vestibulospinal reflex pathway of rabbit. I. Classification of tract cells. Exp. Brain Res. 17 (1973) 477-496
2. Fukushima K., Peterson B., and Wilson V.J. Vestibulospinal, reticulospinal and interstitiospinal pathways in the cat. Prog. Brain Res. 50 (1979) 121-136
3. Graf W., and Ezure K. Morphology of vertical canal related second order vestibular neurons in the cat. Exp. Brain Res. 63 (1986) 35-48
4. Graf W., McCrea R.A., and Baker R. Morphology of posterior canal related secondary vestibular neurons in rabbit and cat. Exp. Brain Res. 52 (1983) 125-138
5. Isu N., and Yokota J. Morphological study on the divergent projection of axon collaterals of medial vestibular nucleus neurons in the cat. Exp. Brain Res. 53 (1983) 151-162
6. Nyberg-Hansen R., and Mascitti T.A. Sites and mode of termination of fibers of the vestibulospinal tract in the cat. An experimental study with silver impregnation methods. J. Comp. Neurol. 122 (1964) 369-388
7. Petras J.M. Cortical, tectal and tegmental fiber connections in the spinal cord of the cat. Brain Res. 6 (1967) 275-324
8. Precht W., and Shimazu H. Functional connections of tonic and kinetic vestibular neurons with primary vestibular afferents. J. Neurophysiol. 28 (1965) 1014-1028
9. Rapoport S., Susswein A., Uchino Y., and Wilson V.J. Properties of vestibular neurons projecting to neck segments of the cat spinal cord. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 268 (1977) 493-510
10. Rose P.K., S. Norkum E.V., and Neuber-Hess M. Projections from the lateral vestibular nucleus to the upper cervical spinal cord of the cat: a correlative light and electron microscopic study of axon terminals stained with PHA-L. J. Comp. Neurol. 410 (1999) 571-585
11. Sato H., Endo K., Ikegami H., Imagawa M., Sasaki M., and Uchino Y. Properties of utricular nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats. Exp. Brain Res. 112 (1996) 197-202
12. Sato H., Imagawa M., Isu N., and Uchino Y. Properties of saccular nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats. Exp. Brain Res. 116 (1997) 381-388
13. Shinoda Y., Sugiuchi Y., Futami T., Ando N., and Kawasaki T. Inputs patterns and pathways from the six semicircular canals to motoneurons of neck muscles. I. The multifidus muscle group. J. Neurophysiol. 72 (1994) 2691-2702
14. Shinoda Y., Sugiuchi Y., Futami T., Ando N., and Yagi J. Inputs patterns and pathways from the six semicircular canals to motoneurons of neck muscles. II. The longissimus and semispinals muscle groups. J. Neurophysiol. 77 (1997) 1234-1258
15. Sugita A., Bai R., Imawaga M., Sato H., Sasaki M., Kitajima N., Koizuka I., and Uchino Y. Properties of horizontal semicircular canal nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats. Exp. Brain Res. 156 (2004) 478-486
16. Sugiuchi Y., Izawa Y., and Shinoda Y. Trisynaptic inhibition from the contralateral vertical semicircular canal nerves to neck motoneurons mediated by spinal commissural neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 73 (1995) 1973-1987
17. Suzuki J.I., Goto K., Tokumatsu K., and Cohen B. Implantation of electrodes near individual vestibular nerve branches in mammals. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 78 (1969) 815-826
18. Uchino Y., and Hirai N. Axon collaterals of anterior semicircular canal-activated vestibular neurons and their coactivation of extraocular and neck motoneurons in the cat. Neurosci. Res. 1 (1984) 309-325
19. Uchino Y., Isu N., Ichikawa T., Sastoh S., and Watanabe S. Properties and localization of the anterior semicircular canal-activated vestibulocollic neurons in the cat. Exp. Brain Res. 71 (1988) 345-352
20. Uchino Y., Isu N., Sakuma A., Ichikawa T., and Hiranuma K. Axonal trajectories of inhibitory vestibulocollic neurons activated by the anterior semicircular canal nerve and their synaptic effects on neck motoneurons in the cat. Exp. Brain Res. 82 (1990) 14-24
21. Uchino Y., Sasaki S.-I., Imagawa M., Uchino H., Isu N., and Sakuma A. Properties and axonal trajectories of inhibitory vestibulocollic neurons in the horizontal canal system of the cat. Neurosci. Res. Suppl. 11 (1990) S139
22. Uchino Y., Sato H., Sasaki M., Imagawa M., Ikegami H., Isu N., and Graf W. Sacculocollic reflex arcs in cats. J. Neurophysiol. 77 (1997) 3003-3012
23. Wilson V.J., and Felpel L.P. Specificity of semicircular canal input to neurons in the pigeon vestibular nuclei. J. Neurophysiol. 35 (1972) 253-264
24. Wilson V.J., and Maeda M. Connections between semicircular canals and neck motoneurons in the cat. J. Neurophysiol. 37 (1974) 357-364
25. Wilson V.J., and Melvill J.G. The vestibulospinal system. Mammalian Vestibular Physiology (1979), Plenum Press, New York, London pp. 185-248