期刊
NEUROSCIENCE
卷 372, 期 -, 页码 161-180出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.12.051
关键词
attention; auditory response; cross-modal; cutaneous electrical stimulation; juxta-cellular recording; Medial geniculate nucleus
资金
- JSPS KAKENHI [23500397, JP17K07081]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23500397, 17K07081] Funding Source: KAKEN
Conventional extracellular recording has revealed cross-modal alterations of auditory cell activities by cutaneous electrical stimulation of the hindpaw in first-and higher-order auditory thalamic nuclei (Donishi et al., 2011). Juxta-cellular recording and labeling techniques were used in the present study to examine the cross-modal alterations in detail, focusing on possible nucleus and/or cell type-related distinctions in modulation. Recordings were obtained from 80 cells of anesthetized rats. Cutaneous electrical stimulation, which did not elicit unit discharges, i.e., subthreshold effects, modulated early (onset) and/or late auditory responses of first-(64%) and higher-order nucleus cells (77%) with regard to response magnitude, latency and/or burst spiking. Attenuation predominated in the modulation of response magnitude and burst spiking, and delay predominated in the modulation of response time. Striking alterations of burst spiking took place in higher-order nucleus cells, which had the potential to exhibit higher propensities for burst spiking as compared to first-order nucleus cells. A sub-population of first-order nucleus cells showing modulation in early response magnitude in the caudal domain of the nucleus had larger cell bodies and higher propensities for burst spiking as compared to cells showing no modulation. These findings suggest that somatosensory influence is incorporated into parallel channels in auditory thalamic nuclei to impose distinct impacts on cortical and subcortical sensory processing. Further, cutaneous electrical stimulation given after early auditory responses modulated late responses. Somatosensory influence is likely to affect ongoing auditory processing at any time without being coincident with sound onset in a narrow temporal window. (C) 2018 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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