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Callado Pérez A, Demers M, Fassihi A, Moore JD, Kleinfeld D, Deschênes M. A brainstem circuit for the expression of defensive facial reactions in rat. Curr Biol 2023; 33:4030-4035.e3. [PMID: 37703878 PMCID: PMC11034846 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
Abstract
The brainstem houses neuronal circuits that control homeostasis of vital functions. These include the depth and rate of breathing1,2 and, critically, apnea, a transient cessation of breathing that prevents noxious vapors from entering further into the respiratory tract. Current thinking is that this reflex is mediated by two sensory pathways. One known pathway involves vagal and glossopharyngeal afferents that project to the nucleus of the solitary tract.3,4,5 Yet, apnea induced by electrical stimulation of the nasal epithelium or delivery of ammonia vapors to the nose persists after brainstem transection at the pontomedullary junction, indicating that the circuitry that mediates this reflex is intrinsic to the medulla.6 A second potential pathway, consistent with this observation, involves trigeminal afferents from the nasal cavity that project to the muralis subnucleus of the spinal trigeminal complex.7,8 Notably, the apneic reflex is not dependent on olfaction as it can be initiated even after disruption of olfactory pathways.9 We investigated how subnucleus muralis cells mediate apnea in rat. By means of electrophysiological recordings and lesions in anesthetized rats, we identified a pathway from chemosensors in the nostrils through the muralis subnucleus and onto both the preBötzinger and facial motor nuclei. We then monitored breathing and orofacial reactions upon ammonia delivery near the nostril of alert, head-restrained rats. The apneic reaction was associated with a grimace, characterized by vibrissa protraction, wrinkling of the nose, and squinting of the eyes. Our results show that a brainstem circuit can control facial expressions for nocifensive and potentially pain-inducing stimuli.
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- Amalia Callado Pérez
- Cervo Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec G1J 2R3, Canada; Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Cervo Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec G1J 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Cervo Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec G1J 2R3, Canada.
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Ni L, Chen H, Xu X, Sun D, Cai H, Wang L, Tang Q, Hao Y, Cao S, Hu X. Neurocircuitry underlying the antidepressant effect of retrograde facial botulinum toxin in mice. Cell Biosci 2023; 13:30. [PMID: 36782335 PMCID: PMC9926702 DOI: 10.1186/s13578-023-00964-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUNDS Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT/A) is extensively applied in spasticity and dystonia as it cleaves synaptosome-associated protein 25 (SNAP25) in the presynaptic terminals, thereby inhibiting neurotransmission. An increasing number of randomized clinical trials have suggested that glabellar BoNT/A injection improves depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the underlying neuronal circuitry of BoNT/A-regulated depression remains largely uncharacterized. RESULTS Here, we modeled MDD using mice subjected to chronic restraint stress (CRS). By pre-injecting BoNT/A into the unilateral whisker intrinsic musculature (WIM), and performing behavioral testing, we showed that pre-injection of BoNT/A attenuated despair- and anhedonia-like phenotypes in CRS mice. By applying immunostaining of BoNT/A-cleaved SNAP25 (cl.SNAP25197), subcellular spatial localization of SNAP25 with markers of cholinergic neurons (ChAT) and post-synaptic membrane (PSD95), and injection of monosynaptic retrograde tracer CTB-488-mixed BoNT/A to label the primary nucleus of the WIM, we demonstrated that BoNT/A axonal retrograde transported to the soma of whisker-innervating facial motoneurons (wFMNs) and subsequent transcytosis to synaptic terminals of second-order neurons induced central effects. Furthermore, using transsynaptic retrograde and monosynaptic antegrade viral neural circuit tracing with c-Fos brain mapping and co-staining of neural markers, we observed that the CRS-induced expression of c-Fos and CaMKII double-positive neurons in the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey (vlPAG), which sent afferents to wFMNs, was down-regulated 3 weeks after BoNT/A facial pre-administration. Strikingly, the repeated and targeted silencing of the wFMNs-projecting CaMKII-positive neurons in vlPAG with a chemogenetic approach via stereotactic injection of recombinant adeno-associated virus into specific brain regions of CRS mice mimicked the antidepressant-like action of BoNT/A pre-treatment. Conversely, repeated chemogenetic activation of this potential subpopulation counteracted the BoNT/A-improved significant antidepressant behavior. CONCLUSION We reported for the first time that BoNT/A inhibited the wFMNs-projecting vlPAG excitatory neurons through axonal retrograde transport and cell-to-cell transcytosis from the injected location of the WIM to regulate depressive-like phenotypes of CRS mice. For the limited and the reversibility of side effects, BoNT/A has substantial advantages and potential application in MDD.
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- Linhui Ni
- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China ,grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Ultrasonography, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XDepartment of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053 China ,grid.263761.70000 0001 0198 0694Department of Neurology, Dushu Lake Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, 215125 China
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- Department of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
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Tsur O, Khrapunsky Y, Azouz R. Sensorimotor integration in the whisker somatosensory brain stem trigeminal loop. J Neurophysiol 2019; 122:2061-2075. [PMID: 31533013 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00116.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The rodent's vibrissal system is a useful model system for studying sensorimotor integration in perception. This integration determines the way in which sensory information is acquired by sensory organs and the motor commands that control them. The initial instance of sensorimotor integration in the whisker somatosensory system is implemented in the brain stem loop and may be essential to the way rodents explore and sense their environment. To examine the nature of these sensorimotor interactions, we recorded from lightly anesthetized rats in vivo and brain stem slices in vitro and isolated specific parts of this loop. We found that motor feedback to the vibrissal pad serves as a dynamic gain controller that controls the response of first-order sensory neurons by increasing and decreasing sensitivity to lower and higher tactile stimulus magnitudes, respectively. This delicate mechanism is mediated through tactile stimulus magnitude-dependent motor feedback. Conversely, tactile inputs affect the motor whisking output through influences on the rhythmic whisking circuitry, thus changing whisking kinetics. Similarly, tactile influences also modify the whisking amplitude through synaptic and intrinsic neuronal interaction in the facial nucleus, resulting in facilitation or suppression of whisking amplitude. These results point to the vast range of mechanisms underlying sensorimotor integration in the brain stem loop.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Sensorimotor integration is a process in which sensory and motor information is combined to control the flow of sensory information, as well as to adjust the motor system output. We found in the rodent's whisker somatosensory system mutual influences between tactile inputs and motor output, in which motor neurons control the flow of sensory information depending on their magnitude. Conversely, sensory information can control the magnitude and kinetics of whisker movement.
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- Omer Tsur
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Mercer Lindsay N, Knutsen PM, Lozada AF, Gibbs D, Karten HJ, Kleinfeld D. Orofacial Movements Involve Parallel Corticobulbar Projections from Motor Cortex to Trigeminal Premotor Nuclei. Neuron 2019; 104:765-780.e3. [PMID: 31587918 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 07/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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How do neurons in orofacial motor cortex (MCtx) orchestrate behaviors? We show that focal activation of MCtx corticobulbar neurons evokes behaviorally relevant concurrent movements of the forelimb, jaw, nose, and vibrissae. The projections from different locations in MCtx form gradients of boutons across premotor nuclei spinal trigeminal pars oralis (SpVO) and interpolaris rostralis (SpVIr). Furthermore, retrograde viral tracing from muscles that control orofacial actions shows that these premotor nuclei segregate their outputs. In the most dramatic case, both SpVO and SpVIr are premotor to forelimb and vibrissa muscles, while only SpVO is premotor to jaw muscles. Functional confirmation of the superimposed control by MCtx was obtained through selective optogenetic activation of corticobulbar neurons on the basis of their preferential projections to SpVO versus SpVIr. We conclude that neighboring projection neurons in orofacial MCtx form parallel pathways to distinct pools of trigeminal premotor neurons that coordinate motor actions into a behavior.
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- Nicole Mercer Lindsay
- Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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McElvain LE, Friedman B, Karten HJ, Svoboda K, Wang F, Deschênes M, Kleinfeld D. Circuits in the rodent brainstem that control whisking in concert with other orofacial motor actions. Neuroscience 2018; 368:152-170. [PMID: 28843993 PMCID: PMC5849401 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 08/12/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The world view of rodents is largely determined by sensation on two length scales. One is within the animal's peri-personal space; sensorimotor control on this scale involves active movements of the nose, tongue, head, and vibrissa, along with sniffing to determine olfactory clues. The second scale involves the detection of more distant space through vision and audition; these detection processes also impact repositioning of the head, eyes, and ears. Here we focus on orofacial motor actions, primarily vibrissa-based touch but including nose twitching, head bobbing, and licking, that control sensation at short, peri-personal distances. The orofacial nuclei for control of the motor plants, as well as primary and secondary sensory nuclei associated with these motor actions, lie within the hindbrain. The current data support three themes: First, the position of the sensors is determined by the summation of two drive signals, i.e., a fast rhythmic component and an evolving orienting component. Second, the rhythmic component is coordinated across all orofacial motor actions and is phase-locked to sniffing as the animal explores. Reverse engineering reveals that the preBötzinger inspiratory complex provides the reset to the relevant premotor oscillators. Third, direct feedback from somatosensory trigeminal nuclei can rapidly alter motion of the sensors. This feedback is disynaptic and can be tuned by high-level inputs. A holistic model for the coordination of orofacial motor actions into behaviors will encompass feedback pathways through the midbrain and forebrain, as well as hindbrain areas.
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- Lauren E McElvain
- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Québec City, G1J 2G3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Section of Neurobiology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Panneton WM, Pan B, Gan Q. Somatotopy in the Medullary Dorsal Horn As a Basis for Orofacial Reflex Behavior. Front Neurol 2017; 8:522. [PMID: 29066998 PMCID: PMC5641296 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The somatotopy of the trigeminocervical complex of the rat was defined as a basis for describing circuitry for reflex behaviors directed through the facial motor nucleus. Thus, transganglionic transport of horseradish peroxidase conjugates applied to individual nerves/peripheral receptive fields showed that nerves innervating oropharyngeal structures projected most rostrally, followed by nerves innervating snout, periocular, and then periauricular receptive fields most caudally. Nerves innervating mucosae or glabrous receptive fields terminated densely in laminae I, II, and V of the trigeminocervical complex, while those innervating hairy skin terminated in laminae I-V. Projections to lamina II exhibited the most focused somatotopy when individual cases were compared. Retrograde transport of FluoroGold (FG) deposited into the facial motor nucleus resulted in labeled neurons almost solely in lamina V of the trigeminocervical complex. The distribution of these labeled neurons paralleled the somatotopy of primary afferent fibers, e.g., those labeled after FG injections into a functional group of motoneurons innervating lip musculature were found most rostrally while those labeled after injections into motoneurons innervating snout, periocular and preauricular muscles, respectively, were found at progressively more caudal levels. Anterograde transport of injections of biotinylated dextran amine into lamina V at different rostrocaudal levels of the trigeminocervical complex confirmed the notion that the somatotopy of orofacial sensory fields parallels the musculotopy of facial motor neurons. These data suggest that neurons in lamina V are important interneurons in a simple orofacial reflex circuit consisting of a sensory neuron, interneuron and motor neuron. Moreover, the somatotopy of primary afferent fibers from the head and neck confirms the "onion skin hypothesis" and suggests rostral cervical dermatomes blend seamlessly with "cranial dermatomes." The transition area between subnucleus interpolaris and subnucleus caudalis is addressed while the paratrigeminal nucleus is discussed as an interface between the somatic and visceral nervous systems.
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- W. Michael Panneton
- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Changsha, China
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- Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Bellavance MA, Takatoh J, Lu J, Demers M, Kleinfeld D, Wang F, Deschênes M. Parallel Inhibitory and Excitatory Trigemino-Facial Feedback Circuitry for Reflexive Vibrissa Movement. Neuron 2017; 95:673-682.e4. [PMID: 28735746 PMCID: PMC5845798 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Revised: 05/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Animals employ active touch to optimize the acuity of their tactile sensors. Prior experimental results and models lead to the hypothesis that sensory inputs are used in a recurrent manner to tune the position of the sensors. A combination of electrophysiology, intersectional genetic viral labeling and manipulation, and classical tracing allowed us to identify second-order sensorimotor loops that control vibrissa movements by rodents. Facial motoneurons that drive intrinsic muscles to protract the vibrissae receive a short latency inhibitory input, followed by synaptic excitation, from neurons located in the oralis division of the trigeminal sensory complex. In contrast, motoneurons that retract the mystacial pad and indirectly retract the vibrissae receive only excitatory input from interpolaris cells that further project to the thalamus. Silencing this feedback alters retraction. The observed pull-push circuit at the lowest-level sensorimotor loop provides a mechanism for the rapid modulation of vibrissa touch during exploration of peri-personal space.
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- Marie-Andrée Bellavance
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Québec City, QC G1J 2G3, Canada
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Québec City, QC G1J 2G3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Québec City, QC G1J 2G3, Canada.
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The sensory trigeminal complex and the organization of its primary afferents in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). J Comp Neurol 2017; 525:2820-2831. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.24249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Attention Robustly Gates a Closed-Loop Touch Reflex. Curr Biol 2017; 27:1836-1843.e7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Stratford JM, Thompson JA, Finger TE. Immunocytochemical organization and sour taste activation in the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract of mice. J Comp Neurol 2016; 525:271-290. [PMID: 27292295 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Sensory inputs from the oropharynx terminate in both the trigeminal brainstem complex and the rostral part of the nucleus of the solitary tract (nTS). Taste information is conveyed via the facial and glossopharyngeal nerves, while general mucosal innervation is carried by the trigeminal and glossopharyngeal nerves. In contrast, the caudal nTS receives general visceral information largely from the vagus nerve. Although the caudal nTS shows clear morphological and molecularly delimited subdivisions, the rostral part does not. Thus, linking taste-induced patterns of activity to morphological subdivisions in the nTS is challenging. To test whether molecularly defined features of the rostral nTS correlate with patterns of taste-induced activity, we combined immunohistochemistry for markers of various visceral afferent and efferent systems with c-Fos-based activity maps generated by stimulation with a sour tastant, 30 mM citric acid. We further dissociated taste-related activity from activity arising from acid-sensitive general mucosal innervation by comparing acid-evoked c-Fos in wild-type and "taste blind" P2X2 /P2X3 double knockout (P2X-dbl KO) mice. In wild-type mice, citric acid stimulation evoked significant c-Fos activation in the central part of the rostral nTS-activity that was largely absent in the P2X-dbl KO mice. P2X-dbl KO mice, like wild-type mice, did exhibit acid-induced c-Fos activity in the dorsomedial trigeminal brainstem nucleus situated laterally adjacent to the rostral nTS. This dorsomedial nucleus also showed substantial innervation by trigeminal nerve fibers immunoreactive for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a marker for polymodal nociceptors, suggesting that trigeminal general mucosal innervation carries information about acids in the oral cavity. J. Comp. Neurol. 525:271-290, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jennifer M Stratford
- Rocky Mountain Taste & Smell Center, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, 80045
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, 80045
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- Rocky Mountain Taste & Smell Center, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, 80045.,Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, 80045
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Kaloti AS, Johnson EC, Bresee CS, Naufel SN, Perich MG, Jones DL, Hartmann MJZ. Representation of Stimulus Speed and Direction in Vibrissal-Sensitive Regions of the Trigeminal Nuclei: A Comparison of Single Unit and Population Responses. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0158399. [PMID: 27463524 PMCID: PMC4963183 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
The rat vibrissal (whisker) system is one of the oldest and most important models for the study of active tactile sensing and sensorimotor integration. It is well established that primary sensory neurons in the trigeminal ganglion respond to deflections of one and only one whisker, and that these neurons are strongly tuned for both the speed and direction of individual whisker deflections. During active whisking behavior, however, multiple whiskers will be deflected simultaneously. Very little is known about how neurons at central levels of the trigeminal pathway integrate direction and speed information across multiple whiskers. In the present work, we investigated speed and direction coding in the trigeminal brainstem nuclei, the first stage of neural processing that exhibits multi-whisker receptive fields. Specifically, we recorded both single-unit spikes and local field potentials from fifteen sites in spinal trigeminal nucleus interpolaris and oralis while systematically varying the speed and direction of coherent whisker deflections delivered across the whisker array. For 12/15 neurons, spike rate was higher when the whisker array was stimulated from caudal to rostral rather than rostral to caudal. In addition, 10/15 neurons exhibited higher firing rates for slower stimulus speeds. Interestingly, using a simple decoding strategy for the local field potentials and spike trains, classification of speed and direction was higher for field potentials than for single unit spike trains, suggesting that the field potential is a robust reflection of population activity. Taken together, these results point to the idea that population responses in these brainstem regions in the awake animal will be strongest during behaviors that stimulate a population of whiskers with a directionally coherent motion.
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- Aniket S. Kaloti
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Illinois at Singapore Pte., Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America
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Faunes M, Oñate-Ponce A, Fernández-Collemann S, Henny P. Excitatory and inhibitory innervation of the mouse orofacial motor nuclei: A stereological study. J Comp Neurol 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.23862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Macarena Faunes
- Laboratorio de Neuroanatomía, Departamento de Anatomía Normal, Escuela de Medicina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Sensory and Motor Systems Group, Department of Anatomy with Radiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019, Grafton 1023 Auckland New Zealand
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- Laboratorio de Neuroanatomía, Departamento de Anatomía Normal, Escuela de Medicina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neuroanatomía, Departamento de Anatomía Normal, Escuela de Medicina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neuroanatomía, Departamento de Anatomía Normal, Escuela de Medicina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santiago Chile
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Smith JB, Watson GDR, Alloway KD, Schwarz C, Chakrabarti S. Corticofugal projection patterns of whisker sensorimotor cortex to the sensory trigeminal nuclei. Front Neural Circuits 2015; 9:53. [PMID: 26483640 PMCID: PMC4588702 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The primary (S1) and secondary (S2) somatosensory cortices project to several trigeminal sensory nuclei. One putative function of these corticofugal projections is the gating of sensory transmission through the trigeminal principal nucleus (Pr5), and some have proposed that S1 and S2 project differentially to the spinal trigeminal subnuclei, which have inhibitory circuits that could inhibit or disinhibit the output projections of Pr5. Very little, however, is known about the origin of sensorimotor corticofugal projections and their patterns of termination in the various trigeminal nuclei. We addressed this issue by injecting anterograde tracers in S1, S2 and primary motor (M1) cortices, and quantitatively characterizing the distribution of labeled terminals within the entire rostro-caudal chain of trigeminal sub-nuclei. We confirmed our anterograde tracing results by injecting retrograde tracers at various rostro-caudal levels within the trigeminal sensory nuclei to determine the position of retrogradely labeled cortical cells with respect to S1 barrel cortex. Our results demonstrate that S1 and S2 projections terminate in largely overlapping regions but show some significant differences. Whereas S1 projection terminals tend to cluster within the principal trigeminal (Pr5), caudal spinal trigeminal interpolaris (Sp5ic), and the dorsal spinal trigeminal caudalis (Sp5c), S2 projection terminals are distributed in a continuum across all trigeminal nuclei. Contrary to the view that sensory gating could be mediated by differential activation of inhibitory interconnections between the spinal trigeminal subnuclei, we observed that projections from S1 and S2 are largely overlapping in these subnuclei despite the differences noted earlier.
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- Jared B Smith
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA ; Center for Neural Engineering, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA
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- Center for Neural Engineering, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA ; Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey, PA, USA
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- Center for Neural Engineering, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA ; Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany ; Systems Neurophysiology, Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany ; Systems Neurophysiology, Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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Moore JD, Mercer Lindsay N, Deschênes M, Kleinfeld D. Vibrissa Self-Motion and Touch Are Reliably Encoded along the Same Somatosensory Pathway from Brainstem through Thalamus. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002253. [PMID: 26393890 PMCID: PMC4579082 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Active sensing involves the fusion of internally generated motor events with external sensation. For rodents, active somatosensation includes scanning the immediate environment with the mystacial vibrissae. In doing so, the vibrissae may touch an object at any angle in the whisk cycle. The representation of touch and vibrissa self-motion may in principle be encoded along separate pathways, or share a single pathway, from the periphery to cortex. Past studies established that the spike rates in neurons along the lemniscal pathway from receptors to cortex, which includes the principal trigeminal and ventral-posterior-medial thalamic nuclei, are substantially modulated by touch. In contrast, spike rates along the paralemniscal pathway, which includes the rostral spinal trigeminal interpolaris, posteromedial thalamic, and ventral zona incerta nuclei, are only weakly modulated by touch. Here we find that neurons along the lemniscal pathway robustly encode rhythmic whisking on a cycle-by-cycle basis, while encoding along the paralemniscal pathway is relatively poor. Thus, the representations of both touch and self-motion share one pathway. In fact, some individual neurons carry both signals, so that upstream neurons with a supralinear gain function could, in principle, demodulate these signals to recover the known decoding of touch as a function of vibrissa position in the whisk cycle.
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- Jeffrey D. Moore
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Kleinfeld D, Moore JD, Wang F, Deschênes M. The Brainstem Oscillator for Whisking and the Case for Breathing as the Master Clock for Orofacial Motor Actions. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2015; 79:29-39. [PMID: 25876629 PMCID: PMC4924579 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2014.79.024794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Whisking and sniffing are predominant aspects of exploratory behavior in rodents. We review evidence that these motor rhythms are coordinated by the respiratory patterning circuitry in the ventral medulla. A recently described region in the intermediate reticular zone of the medulla functions as an autonomous whisking oscillator, whose neuronal output is reset upon each breath by input from the pre-Bötzinger complex. Based on similarities between this neuronal circuit architecture and that of other orofacial behaviors, we propose that the pre-Bötzinger complex, which projects broadly to premotor regions throughout the intermediate reticular zone of the medulla, functions as a master clock to coordinate multiple orofacial actions involved in exploratory and ingestive behaviors. We then extend the analysis of whisking to the relatively slow control of the midpoint of the whisk. We conjecture, in a manner consistent with breathing as the "master clock" for all orofacial behaviors, that slow control optimizes the position of sensors whereas the breathing rhythm provides a means to perceptually bind the inputs from different orofacial modalities.
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- David Kleinfeld
- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 Section of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec GIJ 2G3, Canada
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