期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 112, 期 15, 页码 E1956-E1965出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504866112
关键词
optic tectum; superior colliculus; GABAergic inhibition; gaze control; evolution
资金
- Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Grant Vetenskapsradet Medicine Grant [2011-1062]
- Vetenskapsradet Medicine and Science and Technology Grant [2013-3026]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme Select-and-Act Grant [201716]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme Human Brain Project [604102]
- Karolinska Institutet
The optic tectum (called superior colliculus in mammals) is critical for eye-head gaze shifts as we navigate in the terrain and need to adapt our movements to the visual scene. The neuronal mechanisms underlying the tectal contribution to stimulus selection and gaze reorientation remains, however, unclear at the microcircuit level. To analyze this complex-yet phylogenetically conserved-sensorimotor system, we developed a novel in vitro preparation in the lamprey that maintains the eye and midbrain intact and allows for whole-cell recordings from prelabeled tectal gaze-controlling cells in the deep layer, while visual stimuli are delivered. We found that receptive field activation of these cells provide monosynaptic retinal excitation followed by local GABAergic inhibition (feed-forward). The entire remaining retina, on the other hand, elicits only inhibition (surround inhibition). If two stimuli are delivered simultaneously, one inside and one outside the receptive field, the former excitatory response is suppressed. When local inhibition is pharmacologically blocked, the suppression induced by competing stimuli is canceled. We suggest that this rivalry between visual areas across the tectal map is triggered through long-range inhibitory tectal connections. Selection commands conveyed via gaze-controlling neurons in the optic tectum are, thus, formed through synaptic integration of local retinotopic excitation and global tectal inhibition. We anticipate that this mechanism not only exists in lamprey but is also conserved throughout vertebrate evolution.
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