Strabismic suppression is mediated by inhibitory interactions in the primary visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1750-1758

  Sengpiel, Frank ^a   Jirmann, Kay Uwe ^b   Vorobyov, Vasily ^a   Eysel, Ulf T ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

GABA; Inhibition; Orientation; Strabismus; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRABISMUS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750907733     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj110     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Albrecht DG, Farrar SB, Hamilton DB. 1984. Spatial contrast adaptation characteristics of neurones recorded in the cat's visual cortex. J Physiol 347:713-739.
2. Blake R, Lehmkuhle SW. 1976. On the site of strabismic suppression. Investig Ophthalmol 15:660-663.
3. Blakemore C. 1976. The conditions required for the maintenance of binocularity in the kitten's visual cortex. J Physiol 261:423-444.
4. Burkhalter A, Tychsen L. 1993. Alteration of intracortical connections in monkeys who lacked normal binocular experience in infancy. Investig Ophthalmol Vis Sci 34:1173.
5. Buzás P, Eysel UT, Adorján P, Kisvárday ZF. 2001. Axonal topography of cortical basket cells in relation to orientation, direction, and ocular dominance maps. J Comp Neurol 437:259-285.
6. Chino YM, Shansky MS, Jankowski WL, Banser FA. 1983. Effects of rearing kittens with convergent strabismus on development of receptive-field properties in striate cortex neurons. J Neurophysiol 50:265-286.
7. Crawford MLJ, Smith EL III, Harwerth RS, von Noorden GK. 1984. Stereoblind monkeys have few binocular neurons. Investig Ophthalmol Vis Sci 25:779-781.
8. Crawford MLJ, von Noorden GK. 1979. The effects of short-term experimental strabismus on the visual system in Macaca mulatta. Investig Ophthalmol Vis Sci 18:496-505.
9. Crawford MLJ, von Noorden GK, Meharg LS, Rhodes JW, Harwerth RS, Smith EL III, Miller DD. 1983. Binocular neurons and binocular function in monkeys and children. Investig Ophthalmol Vis Sci 24:491-495.
10. Crewther DP, Crewther SG. 1990. Neural site of strabismic amblyopia in cats: spatial frequency deficit in primary cortical neurons. Exp Brain Res 79:615-622.
11. DeAngelis GC, Ohzawa I, Freeman RD. 1993. Spatiotemporal organization of simple-cell receptive fields in the cat's striate cortex. I. General characteristics and postnatal development. J Neurophysiol 69:1091-1117.
12. Duke-Elder S, Wybar KC. 1973. Ocular motility and strabismus. In: Duke-Elder S, editor. System of ophthalmology. London: Henry Kimpton.
13. Freeman TC, Durand S, Kiper DC, Carandini M. 2002. Suppression without inhibition in visual cortex. Neuron 35:759-771.
14. Hess RF. 1991. The site and nature of suppression in squint amblyopia. Vision Res 31:111-117.
15. Hubel DH, Wiesel TN. 1965. Binocular interaction in striate cortex of kittens reared with artificial squint. J Neurophysiol 28:1041-1059.
16. Kiorpes L, Kiper DC, O'Keefe LP, Cavanaugh JR, Movshon JA. 1998. Neuronal correlates of amblyopia in the visual cortex of macaque monkeys with experimental strabismus and anisometropia. J Neurosci 18:6411-6424.
17. Kisvárday ZF. 1992. GABAergic networks of basket cells in the visual cortex. Prog Brain Res 90:385-405.
18. Kisvárday ZF, Crook JM, Buzás P, Eysel UT. 2000. Combined physiological-anatomical approaches to study lateral inhibition. J Neurosci Methods 103:91-106.
19. Kisvárday ZF, Tóth E, Rausch M, Eysel UT. 1997. Orientation-specific relationship between populations of excitatory and inhibitory lateral connections in the visual cortex of the cat. Cereb Cortex 7:605-618.
20. Lema S, Blake R. 1977. Binocular summation in normal and stereoblind humans. Vision Res 17:691-695.
21. Levi DM, Harwerth RS, Smith EL III. 1979. Humans deprived of normal binocular vision have binocular interactions tuned to size and orientation. Science 206:852-854.
22. Löwel S, Singer W. 1992. Selection of intrinsic horizontal connections in the visual cortex by correlated neuronal activity. Science 255:209-212.
23. Maffei L, Fiorentini A, Bisti S. 1973. Neural correlates of perceptual adaptation to gratings. Science 182:1036-1039.
24. Markram H, Toledo-Rodriguez M, Wang Y, Gupta A, Silberberg G, Wu C. 2004. Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system. Nat Rev Neurosci 5:793-807.
25. Morrone MC, Burr DC, Maffei L. 1982. Functional implications of cross-orientation inhibition of cortical visual cells. I. Neurophysiological evidence. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 216:335-354.
26. Movshon JA, Thompson ID, Tolhurst DJ. 1978. Spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity of neurones in areas 17 and 18 of the cat's visual cortex. J Physiol 283:101-120.
27. Mower GD, Burchfiel JL, Duffy FH. 1982. Animal models of strabismic amblyopia: physiological studies of visual cortex and the lateral geniculate nucleus. Dev Brain Res 5:311-327.
28. Ohzawa I, Sclar G, Freeman RD. 1985. Contrast gain control in the cat's visual system. J Neurophysiol 54:651-667.
29. Roerig B, Chen B. 2002. Relationships of local inhibitory and excitatory circuits to orientation preference maps in ferret visual cortex. Cereb Cortex 12:187-198.
30. Sanchez-Vives MV, Nowak LG, McCormick DA. 2000. Membrane mechanisms underlying contrast adaptation in cat area 17 in vivo. J Neurosci 20:4267-4285.
31. Saul AB, Humphrey AL. 1990. Spatial and temporal response properties of lagged and nonlagged cells in cat lateral geniculate nucleus. J Neurophysiol 64:206-224.
32. Sengpiel F, Blakemore C. 1994. Interocular control of neuronal responsiveness in cat visual cortex. Nature 368:847-850.
33. Sengpiel F, Blakemore C. 1996. The neural basis of suppression and amblyopia in strabismus. Eye (Lond) 10:250-258.
34. Sengpiel F, Blakemore C, Harrad R. 1995. Interocular suppression in the primary visual cortex: a possible neural basis of binocular rivalry. Vision Res 35:179-195.
35. Sengpiel F, Blakemore C, Kind PC, Harrad R. 1994. Interocular suppression in the visual cortex of strabismic cats. J Neurosci 14:6855-6871.
36. Sengpiel F, Freeman TCB, Blakemore C. 1995. Interocular suppression in cat striate cortex is not orientation selective. Neuroreport 6:2235-2239.
37. Sengpiel F, Vorobyov V. 2005. Intracortical origins of interocular suppression in the visual cortex. J Neurosci 25:6394-6400.
38. Shou T, Li X, Zhou Y, Hu B. 1996. Adaptation of visually evoked responses of relay cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat following prolonged exposure to drifting gratings. Vis Neurosci 13:605-613.
39. Sillito AM. 1979. Inhibitory mechanisms influencing complex cell orientation selectivity and their modification at high resting discharge levels. J Physiol 289:33-53.
40. Sillito AM, Kemp JA, Blakemore C. 1981. The role of GABAergic inhibition in the cortical effects of monocular deprivation. Nature 291:318-320.
41. Sillito AM, Kemp JA, Patel H. 1980. Inhibitory interactions contributing to the ocular dominance of monocularly dominated cells in the normal cat striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 41:1-10.
42. Singer W, von Grünau MW, Rauschecker JP. 1980. Functional amblyopia in kittens with unilateral exotropia. I. Electrophysiological assessment. Exp Brain Res 40:294-304.
43. Sireteanu R. 1982. Binocular vision in strabismic humans with alternating fixation. Vision Res 22:889-896.
44. Sireteanu R, Fronius M. 1981. Naso-temporal asymmetries in human amblyopia: consequence of long-term interocular suppression. Vision Res 21:1055-1063.
45. Smith EL III, Chino YM, Ni JR, Cheng H, Crawford MLJ, Harwerth RS. 1997. Residual binocular interactions in the striate cortex of monkeys reared with abnormal binocular vision. J Neurophysiol 78:1353-1362.
46. Travers T. 1938. Suppression of vision in squint and its association with retinal correspondence and amblyopia. Br J Ophthalmol 22:577-604.
47. Van Sluyters RC, Levitt FB. 1980. Experimental strabismus in the kitten. J Neurophysiol 43:686-699.
48. von Noorden GK. 1990. Binocular vision and ocular motility-theory and management of strabismus. 4th ed. St Louis, MO: CV Mosby.