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<a href="http://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00070" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00070</a>
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70–70
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8
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Subcollicular projections to the auditory thalamus and collateral projections to the inferior colliculus.
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Frontiers in neuroanatomy
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2014
1905-7
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superior olive; medial geniculate nucleus; binaural; brain evolution; lateral lemniscus; paralemniscal area; parallel pathways; reticular formation
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Schofield Brett R; Mellott Jeffrey G; Motts Susan D
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Experiments in several species have identified direct projections to the medial geniculate nucleus (MG) from cells in subcollicular auditory nuclei. Moreover, many cochlear nucleus cells that project to the MG send collateral projections to the inferior colliculus (IC) (Schofield et al., 2014). We conducted three experiments to characterize projections to the MG from the superior olivary and the lateral lemniscal regions in guinea pigs. For experiment 1, we made large injections of retrograde tracer into the MG. Labeled cells were most numerous in the superior paraolivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body, lateral superior olivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, ventrolateral tegmental nucleus, paralemniscal region and sagulum. Additional sources include other periolivary nuclei and the medial superior olivary nucleus. The projections are bilateral with an ipsilateral dominance (66%). For experiment 2, we injected tracer into individual MG subdivisions. The results show that the subcollicular projections terminate primarily in the medial MG, with the dorsal MG a secondary target. The variety of projecting nuclei suggest a range of functions, including monaural and binaural aspects of hearing. These direct projections could provide the thalamus with some of the earliest (i.e., fastest) information regarding acoustic stimuli. For experiment 3, we made large injections of different retrograde tracers into one MG and the homolateral IC to identify cells that project to both targets. Such cells were numerous and distributed across many of the nuclei listed above, mostly ipsilateral to the injections. The prominence of the collateral projections suggests that the same information is delivered to both the IC and the MG, or perhaps that a common signal is being delivered as a preparatory indicator or temporal reference point. The results are discussed from functional and evolutionary perspectives.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00070" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.3389/fnana.2014.00070</a>
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2014
binaural
brain evolution
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Frontiers in neuroanatomy
lateral lemniscus
medial geniculate nucleus
Mellott Jeffrey G
Motts Susan D
NEOMED College of Medicine
paralemniscal area
parallel pathways
reticular formation
Schofield Brett R
superior olive
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2022.871924
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Inhibitory NPY Neurons Provide a Large and Heterotopic Commissural Projection in the Inferior Colliculus
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Justin D Anair
Marina A Silveira
Pooyan Mirjalili
Nichole L Beebe
Brett R Schofield
Michael T Roberts
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2022
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Located in the midbrain, the inferior colliculus (IC) plays an essential role in many auditory computations, including speech processing and sound localization. The right and left sides of the IC are interconnected by a dense fiber tract, the commissure of the IC (CoIC), that provides each IC with one of its largest sources of input (i.e., the contralateral IC). Despite its prominence, the CoIC remains poorly understood. Previous studies using anterograde and retrograde tract-tracing showed that IC commissural projections are predominately homotopic and tonotopic, targeting mirror-image locations in the same frequency region in the contralateral IC. However, it is unknown whether specific classes of neurons, particularly inhibitory neurons which constitute ~10%-40% of the commissural projection, follow this pattern. We, therefore, examined the commissural projections of Neuropeptide Y (NPY) neurons, the first molecularly identifiable class of GABAergic neurons in the IC. Using retrograde tracing with Retrobeads (RB) in NPY-hrGFP mice of both sexes, we found that NPY neurons comprise ~11% of the commissural projection. Moreover, focal injections of Retrobeads showed that NPY neurons in the central nucleus of the IC exhibit a more divergent and heterotopic commissural projection pattern than non-NPY neurons. Thus, commissural NPY neurons are positioned to provide lateral inhibition to the contralateral IC. Through this circuit, sounds that drive activity in limited regions on one side of the IC likely suppress activity across a broader region in the contralateral IC.
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Front Neural Circuits
. 2022 May 26;16:871924. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2022.871924. eCollection 2022.
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English
2022
Auditory
binaural
commissure
inferior colliculus
inhibition
neuropeptide Y
retrograde tracing