Reducing the uncertainty: Gating of peripheral inputs by zona incerta

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 40, 2004, Pages 8911-8915

  Trageser, Jason C ^a   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticothalamic; First order nucleus; Higher order nucleus; Posterior medial nucleus; Thalamocortical; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ZONA INCERTA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBTHALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 5444225734     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3218-04.2004     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Acsady L, Bokor H, Slezia A (2003) Multiple extrareticular source of GABAergic afferents to higher order thalamic nuclei. Soc Neurosci Abstr 29:60-69.
2. Ahissar E, Sosnik R, Haidarliu S (2000) Transformation from temporal to rate coding in a somatosensory thalamocortical pathway. Nature 406:302-306.
3. Barbaresi P, Spreafico R, Frassoni C, Rustioni A (1986) GABAergic neurons are present in the dorsal column nuclei but not in the ventroposterior complex of rats. Brain Res 382:305-326.
4. Bartho P, Freund TF, Acsady L (2002) Selective GABAergic innervation of thalamic nuclei from zona incerta. Eur J Neurosci 16:999-1014.
5. Chiaia NL, Rhoades RW, Fish SE, Killackey HP (1991) Thalamic processing of vibrissal information in the rat. II. Morphological and functional properties of medial ventral posterior nucleus and posterior nucleus neurons. J Comp Neurol 314:217-236.
6. Deschênes M, Bourassa J, Pinault D (1994) Corticothalamic projections from layer V cells in rat are collaterals of long-range corticofugal axons. Brain Res 664:215-219.
7. Diamond ME, Armstrong-James M, Ebner FF (1992a) Somatic sensory responses in the rostral sector of the posterior group (POm) and in the ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the rat thalamus. J Comp Neurol 318:462-476.
8. Diamond ME, Armstrong-James M, Budway MJ, Ebner FF (1992b) Somatic sensory responses in the rostral sector of the posterior group (POm) and in the ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the rat thalamus: dependence on the barrel field cortex. J Comp Neurol 319:66-84.
9. Eaton MJ, Moss RL (1989) Electrophysiology and pharmacology of neurons of the medial zona incerta: an in vitro slice study. Brain Res 502:117-126.
10. Grieve KL, Acuna C, Cudeiro J (2000) The primate pulvinar nuclei: vision and action. Trends Neurosci 23:35-39.
11. Guillery RW (1966) A study of Golgi preparations from the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the adult cat. J Comp Neurol 128:21-50.
12. Harris RM, Hendrickson AE (1987) Local circuit neurons in the rat ventrobasal thalamus - a GABA immunocytochemical study. Neuroscience 21:229-236.
13. Hartings JA, Simons DJ (1998) Thalamic relay of afferent responses to 1- to 12-Hz whisker stimulation in the rat. J Neurophysiol 80:1016-1019.
14. Hoogland PV, Wouterlood FG, Welker E, Van der Loos H (1991) Ultra-structure of giant and small thalamic terminals of cortical origin: a study of the projections from the barrel cortex in mice using Phaseolus vulgaris leuco-agglutinin (PHA-L). Exp Brain Res 87:159-172.
15. Ito M (1988) Response properties and topography of vibrissa-sensitive VPM neurons in the rat. J Neurophysiol 60:1181-1197.
16. Jones EG (1983) Distribution patterns of individual medial lemniscal axons in the ventrobasal complex of the monkey thalamus. J Comp Neurol 215:1-16.
17. Jones EG (1985) The thalamus. New York: Plenum.
18. Killackey HP, Sherman SM (2003) Corticothalamic projections from the rat primary somatosensory cortex. J Neurosci 23:7381-7384.
19. Kolmac CI, Mitrofanis J (1998) Distribution of various neurochemicals within the zona incerta: an immunocytochemical and histochemical study. Anat Embryol 199:265-280.
20. Koyama Y, Takahashi K, Kodama T, Kayama Y (2003) State-dependent activity of neurons in the perifornical hypothalamic area during sleep and waking. Neuroscience 119:1209-1219.
21. Nicolelis MA, Chapin JK, Lin RC (1992) Somatotopic maps within the zona incerta relay parallel GABAergic somatosensory pathways to the neocortex, superior colliculus, and brainstem. Brain Res 577:134-141.
22. Peschanski M, Ralston HJ, Roudier F (1983) Reticularis thalami afferents to the ventrobasal complex of the rat thalamus: an electron microscope study. Brain Res 270:325-329.
23. Pinault D, Deschênes M (1998) Projection and innervation patterns of individual thalamic reticular axons in the thalamus of the adult rat: a three-dimensional, graphic, and morphometric analysis. J Comp Neurol 391:180-203.
24. Power BD, Kolmac CI, Mitrofanis I (1999) Evidence for a large projection from the zona incerta to the dorsal thalamus. J Comp Neurol 404:554-565.
25. Power BD, Leamey CA, Mitrofanis J (2001) Evidence for a visual subsector within the zona incerta. Vis Neurosci 18:179-186.
26. Sherman SM, Guillery RW (2001) Exploring the thalamus. San Diego: Academic.
27. Sosnik R, Haidarliu S, Ahissar E (2001) Temporal frequency of whisker movement. I. Representations in brain stem and thalamus. J Neurophysiol 86:339-353.
28. Veinante P, Jacquin MF, Deschênes M (2000) Thalamic projections from the whisker-sensitive regions of the spinal trigeminal complex in the rat. J Comp Neurol 420:233-243.
29. Wang ST, Bickford ME, Van Horn SC, Erisir A, Godwin DW, Sherman SM (2001) Synaptic targets of thalamic reticular nucleus terminals in the visual thalamus of the cat. J Comp Neurol 440:321-341.