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Hernández-Morato I, Yu VX, Pitman MJ. A review of the peripheral proprioceptive apparatus in the larynx. Front Neuroanat 2023; 17:1114817. [PMID: 36910514 PMCID: PMC9998684 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2023.1114817] [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: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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The larynx is an organ of the upper airway that participates in breathing, glutition, voice production, and airway protection. These complex functions depend on vocal fold (VF) movement, facilitated in turn by the action of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles (ILM). The necessary precise and near-instantaneous modulation of each ILM contraction relies on proprioceptive innervation of the larynx. Dysfunctional laryngeal proprioception likely contributes to disorders such as laryngeal dystonia, dysphagia, vocal fold paresis, and paralysis. While the proprioceptive system in skeletal muscle derived from somites is well described, the proprioceptive circuitry that governs head and neck structures such as VF has not been so well characterized. For over two centuries, researchers have investigated the question of whether canonical proprioceptive organs, muscle spindles, and Golgi tendon organs, exist in the ILM, with variable findings. The present work is a state-of-the-art review of the peripheral component of laryngeal proprioception, including current knowledge of canonical and possible alternative proprioceptive circuitry elements in the larynx.
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- Ignacio Hernández-Morato
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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Eye movements are indispensable for visual image stabilization during self-generated and passive head and body motion and for visual orientation. Eye muscles and neuronal control elements are evolutionarily conserved, with novel behavioral repertoires emerging during the evolution of frontal eyes and foveae. The precise execution of eye movements with different dynamics is ensured by morphologically diverse yet complementary sets of extraocular muscle fibers and associated motoneurons. Singly and multiply innervated muscle fibers are controlled by motoneuronal subpopulations with largely selective premotor inputs from task-specific ocular motor control centers. The morphological duality of the neuromuscular interface is matched by complementary biochemical and molecular features that collectively assign different physiological properties to the motor entities. In contrast, the functionality represents a continuum where most motor elements contribute to any type of eye movement, although within preferential dynamic ranges, suggesting that signal transmission and muscle contractions occur within bands of frequency-selective pathways.
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- Anja K E Horn
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany;
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- Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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Hoh JFY. Myosin heavy chains in extraocular muscle fibres: Distribution, regulation and function. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2021; 231:e13535. [PMID: 32640094 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review examines kinetic properties and distribution of the 11 isoforms of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) expressed in extraocular muscle (EOM) fibre types and the regulation and function of these MyHCs. Although recruitment and discharge characteristics of ocular motoneurons during fixation and eye movements are well documented, work directly linking these properties with motor unit contractile speed and MyHC composition is lacking. Recruitment of motor units according to Henneman's size principle has some support in EOMs but needs consolidation. Both neurogenic and myogenic mechanisms regulate MyHC expression as in other muscle allotypes. Developmentally, multiply-innervated (MIFs) and singly-innervated fibres (SIFs) are derived presumably from distinct myoblast lineages, ending up expressing MyHCs in the slow and fast ends of the kinetic spectrum respectively. They modulate the synaptic inputs of their motoneurons through different retrogradely transported neurotrophins, thereby specifying their tonic and phasic impulse patterns. Immunohistochemical analyses of EOMs regenerating in situ and in limb muscle beds suggest that the very impulse patterns driving various ocular movements equip effectors with appropriate MyHC compositions and speeds to accomplish their tasks. These experiments also suggest that satellite cells of SIFs and MIFs are distinct lineages expressing different MyHCs during regeneration. MyHC compositions and functional characteristics of orbital fibres show longitudinal variations that facilitate linear ocular rotation during saccades. Palisade endings on global MIFs are postulated to respond to active and passive tensions by triggering axon reflexes that play important roles during fixation, saccades and vergence. How EOMs implement Listings law during ocular rotation is discussed.
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- Joseph F. Y. Hoh
- Discipline of Physiology and the Bosch Institute School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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Kim CZ, Lee SJ. Increased myofiber size and reduced satellite cell numbers in medial rectus muscle of patients with intermittent exotropia. Strabismus 2020; 28:201-207. [PMID: 33085552 DOI: 10.1080/09273972.2020.1832546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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PURPOSE To elucidate the differences in muscle bundle and satellite cells in medial rectus muscle through histological and Immunofluorescence studies of intermittent exotropia patients and normal controls. Materials and Methods: From January 2015 to December 2017, 15 patients who underwent medial rectus resection surgery at Kosin University Gospel Hospital were enrolled. Four medial recti muscles collected from two brain-dead men without strabismus were used as controls and compared with the intermittent exotropia group. Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining were performed, and all muscle bundle diameters were measured with the Image J program and compared to the mean value. Immunological staining for MyoHC (Myosin Heavy Chain), PAX7 (Transcription Factor), and PCNA (Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen) were performed to analyze the distribution of myocytes and PAX7-positive and PCNA-positive cells. Results: The mean ages of the strabismus and control groups were 17.33 ± 13.05 and 22.0 ± 5.85 years, respectively, and the male to female ratio was 7:2 and 2:0. The average angle of deviation in the exotropia patients was 36.0 ± 16.83 prism diopters. The mean muscle bundle diameter under light microscopy was 60.21 ± 1.48 in the exotropia group and 52.27 ± 0.74 in the control group. The exotropia group showed significantly greater mean muscle bundle diameter (p < .001) and diameter regularity than the control group. The PAX7(+)/muscle bundle number ratio was 0.016 ± 0.014 and 0.056 ± 0.015 in the exotropia group and control group, respectively (p < .001), and the PCNA(+)/muscular bundle number ratio was 0.015 ± 0.017 and 0.182 ± 0.102 (p < .001). Both were significantly higher in the control group compared to that in the exotropia patients. Conclusion: In the exotropia group, mean diameter of medial rectus muscle bundle was significantly larger than that of control group. The ratios of PAX7 and PCNA to muscle bundle number were significantly higher in the control group than intermittent extropia group. We found the negative relationship between activation of satellite cells and muscle bundle diameter, and it might take one step forward to elucidate the pathogenesis of intermittent extropia.
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- Chang Zoo Kim
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Gospel Hospital , Busan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Gospel Hospital , Busan
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Lienbacher K, Sänger K, Strassburger S, Ehrt O, Rudolph G, Barnerssoi M, Horn AKE. Extraocular muscles involved in convergence are innervated by an additional set of palisade endings that may differ in their excitability: A human study. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2019; 248:127-137. [PMID: 31239126 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Palisade endings are located at the myotendinous junction of extraocular muscles in most mammals. Irrespective of their unclarified function as motor or sensory nerve endings, a specialized role in convergence is proposed, based on their high number in the medial rectus muscle (MR). Further support comes from a study in monkey demonstrating that only the MR and inferior rectus muscle (IR) contain an additional population of palisade endings that express the calcium-binding protein calretinin (CR) in addition to choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). Here we studied, whether CR-positive palisade endings are present in human as well and confined to extraocular muscles most active during convergence. The systematic analysis of all eye muscles of 17 human specimen revealed that only the MR and IR contain an additional population of CR-positive palisade endings and multiple en-grappe endings, which target non-twitch muscle fibers along their whole length. Approximately 80% of all palisade endings in the MR expressed CR. Furthermore, the intrafusal muscle fibers of some muscle spindles in the MR were innervated by CR-positive annulospiral nerve endings that transmit the signals of muscle length changes to the brain. All extraocular muscles contained few thin CR-positive, but ChAT-negative nerve fibers, possibly representing free sensory or autonomic endings arising from the trigeminal ganglion. As in monkey, in the medial periphery of the human oculomotor nucleus ChAT-positive neurons were found to co-express CR. Therefore these neurons most likely represent the cell bodies of CR-positive palisade endings in the MR. Unlike in monkey, these neurons do not lie within a compact cell group, but are more scattered. In conclusion, the MR and IR in human contain two histochemically different populations of palisade and multiple endings that may contribute to ocular alignment and convergence in a different way.
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- Karoline Lienbacher
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders DSGZ, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders DSGZ, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
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Lienbacher K, Ono S, Fleuriet J, Mustari M, Horn AKE. A Subset of Palisade Endings Only in the Medial and Inferior Rectus Muscle in Monkey Contain Calretinin. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2018; 59:2944-2954. [PMID: 30025142 PMCID: PMC5989861 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.18-24322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Purpose To further chemically characterize palisade endings in extraocular muscles in rhesus monkeys. Methods Extraocular muscles of three rhesus monkeys were studied for expression of the calcium-binding protein calretinin (CR) in palisade endings and multiple endings. The complete innervation was visualized with antibodies against the synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa and combined with immunofluorescence for CR. Six rhesus monkeys received tracer injections of choleratoxin subunit B or wheat germ agglutinin into either the belly or distal myotendinous junction of the medial or inferior rectus muscle to allow retrograde tracing in the C-group of the oculomotor nucleus. Double-immunofluorescence methods were used to study the CR content in retrogradely labeled neurons in the C-group. Results A subgroup of palisade and multiple endings was found to express CR, only in the medial and inferior rectus muscle. In contrast, the en plaque endings lacked CR. Accordingly, within the tracer-labeled neurons of the C-group, a subgroup expressed CR. Conclusions The study indicates that two different neuron populations targeting nontwitch muscle fibers are present within the C-group for inferior rectus and medial rectus, respectively, one expressing CR, one lacking CR. It is possible that the CR-negative neurons represent the basic population for all extraocular muscles, whereas the CR-positive neurons giving rise to CR-positive palisade endings represent a specialized, perhaps more excitable type of nerve ending in the medial and inferior rectus muscles, being more active in vergence. The malfunction of this CR-positive population of neurons that target nontwitch muscle fibers could play a significant role in strabismus.
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- Karoline Lienbacher
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Health and Sport Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany
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Paduca A, Bruenech JR. Neuroanatomical Structures in Human Extraocular Muscles and Their Potential Implication in the Development of Oculomotor Disorders. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2018; 55:14-22. [PMID: 28991350 DOI: 10.3928/01913913-20170703-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The potential role of sensory feedback from human extraocular muscles has been subjected to considerable speculation in the ophthalmic literature. Extraocular muscles pull against a fairly even load and do not initiate a stretch reflex, even when the eyes are directed toward the boundaries of their respective field of action. These unique working conditions and physiological properties have led to the notion that the sensory signal arising from receptors in extraocular muscles differs from the conventional proprioceptive signal arising from their somatic counterparts. The interest in the receptors at the myotendinous junction of human extraocular muscles has been renewed due to their alleged role in the development of binocular vision and their potential implication in the etiology of binocular vision anomalies. The idea that extraocular muscles provide knowledge of eye position and whether this function can be affected by surgical intervention has initiated several clinical and neuroanatomical studies. Many of these studies support this concept and suggest that surgical procedures that impose only minimal interference with the proprioceptive signal will give a better postoperative result. However, other studies contradict this view because the afferent capacity of the receptors can be questioned and some uncertainties remain. The purpose of this study was to review the related literature and discuss the possible role of ocular proprioceptors in relation to binocular vision and the development of eye motility disorders. [J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2018;55(1):14-22.].
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Yao J, Wang X, Ren H, Liu G, Lu P. Ultrastructure of medial rectus muscles in patients with intermittent exotropia. Eye (Lond) 2015; 30:146-51. [PMID: 26514242 DOI: 10.1038/eye.2015.213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To study the ultrastructure of the medial rectus in patients with intermittent exotropia at different ages.PATIENTS AND METHODS The medial recti were harvested surgically from 20 patients with intermittent exotropia. Patients were divided into adolescent (age<18 years, n=10) and adult groups (age >18 years, n=10). The normal control group included five patients without strabismus and undergoing eye enucleation. Hematoxylin and eosin staining and transmission electron microscopy were used to visualize the medial recti. Western blot was used to determine the levels of myosin and actin.RESULTS Varying fiber thickness, atrophy, and misalignment of the medial recti were visualized under optical microscope in patients with exotropia. Electron microscopy revealed sarcomere destruction, myofilament disintegration, unclear dark and light bands, collagen proliferation, and fibrosis. The adolescent group manifested significantly higher levels of myosin and actin than the adult group (P<0.05).CONCLUSION Younger patients with intermittent exotropia show stronger contraction of the medial recti compared with older patients. Our findings suggest that childhood was the appropriate time for surgery as the benefit of the intervention was better than in adulthood.
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- J Yao
- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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The Prolonged Double Vision Is not Only Caused by Adhesion of Orbital Contents After Blowout Fractures: Important Role of the Orbital Proprioception. J Craniofac Surg 2015; 26:e680-1. [PMID: 26439208 DOI: 10.1097/scs.0000000000002139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Blazquez PM, Yakusheva TA. GABA-A Inhibition Shapes the Spatial and Temporal Response Properties of Purkinje Cells in the Macaque Cerebellum. Cell Rep 2015; 11:1043-53. [PMID: 25959822 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Revised: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Data from in vitro and anesthetized preparations indicate that inhibition plays a major role in cerebellar cortex function. We investigated the role of GABA-A inhibition in the macaque cerebellar ventral-paraflocculus while animals performed oculomotor behaviors that are known to engage the circuit. We recorded Purkinje cell responses to these behaviors with and without application of gabazine, a GABA-A receptor antagonist, near the recorded neuron. Gabazine increased the neuronal responsiveness to saccades in all directions and the neuronal gain to VOR cancellation and pursuit, most significantly the eye and head velocity sensitivity. L-glutamate application indicated that these changes were not the consequence of increases in baseline firing rate. Importantly, gabazine did not affect behavior or efference copy, suggesting that only local computations were disrupted. Our data, collected while the cerebellum performs behaviorally relevant computations, indicate that inhibition is a potent regulatory mechanism for the control of input-output gain and spatial tuning in the cerebellar cortex.
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- Pablo M Blazquez
- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4566 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4566 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Bruenech JR, Kjellevold Haugen IB. How does the structure of extraocular muscles and their nerves affect their function? Eye (Lond) 2014; 29:177-83. [PMID: 25397785 DOI: 10.1038/eye.2014.269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The sensory and motor control of human extraocular muscles (EOMs) have been subjected to considerable speculation in ophthalmic literature, often related to infranuclear structures such as the unique complement of muscle fibres and their associated sensory organs. The intrafusal fibres do not resemble their somatic counterparts and their peculiar morphology has raised questions about their proprioceptive capacity. No Golgi tendon organs have so far been observed and the myotendinous nerve endings, previously assumed to convey sensory information, have recently been argued to merely represent constituents of the efferent innervation serving the multiply innervated muscles fibres. These observations raise questions about the overall capacity to monitor the activity created by the generous efferent nerve supply observed in these muscles. Furthermore, the argued independent activity of muscular layers and compartments suggest that the required feedback must be highly structured and more specific than previously assumed. Yet, uncertainty about the source of such information remains. The purpose of this paper is to provide a short review of neuromuscular properties of human extraocular muscles. Their functional implications and the most reputable sources of proprioception will also be discussed. The promoted views are based on pertinent literature and previous research undertaken by the authors.
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- J R Bruenech
- Biomedical Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Campus Kongsberg, Kongsberg, Norway
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Boyd JT, Fries TJ, Nagle KJ, Hamill RW. A novel presentation of an ocular geste antagoniste in cervical dystonia: a case report. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) 2013; 3:tre-03-199-4624-1. [PMID: 24386606 PMCID: PMC3849767 DOI: 10.7916/d8416vsj] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A geste antagoniste or sensory trick is a well described phenomenon associated with primary cervical dystonia. Craniocervical tactile stimulation or stereotyped limb movements allow patients to transiently ameliorate dystonic activation of cervical musculature. CASE REPORT We report a patient with primary cervical dystonia who presented with a novel "ocular" geste antagoniste. Through a sensory trick of tonic left eye deviation, the patient transiently reduces cervical dystonic activity (improved range of motion and reduced dystonic tremor). Multi-channel surface electromyography and video are used to illustrate these findings. DISCUSSION This case presents a unique clinical observation of specific voluntary eye movements attenuating cervical dystonia. The phenomenon is phenotypically consistent with previously described limb sensorimotor tricks.
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- James T. Boyd
- Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
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Ni J, Tatalovic M, Straumann D, Olasagasti I. Gaze direction affects linear self-motion heading discrimination in humans. Eur J Neurosci 2013; 38:3248-60. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2012] [Revised: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jianguang Ni
- Department of Neurology; University Hospital Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology; University Hospital Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology; University Hospital Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology; University Hospital Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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Fujita K, Matsuo K, Yuzuriha S, Kawagishi K, Moriizumi T. Cell bodies of the trigeminal proprioceptive neurons that transmit reflex contraction of the levator muscle are located in the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus in rats. J Plast Surg Hand Surg 2013; 46:383-8. [PMID: 23157498 DOI: 10.3109/2000656x.2012.722094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Since the levator and frontalis muscles lack interior muscle spindles despite being antigravity mixed muscles to involuntarily sustain eyelid opening and eyebrow lifting, this study has proposed a hypothetical mechanism to compensate for this anatomical defect. The voluntary contraction of fast-twitch fibres of the levator muscle stretches the mechanoreceptors in Müller's muscle to evoke proprioception, which continuously induces reflex contraction of slow-twitch fibres of the levator and frontalis muscles. This study confirmed the presence of cell bodies of the trigeminal proprioceptive neurons that transmit reflex contraction of the levator and frontalis muscles. After confirming that severing the trigeminal proprioceptive fibres that innervate the mechanoreceptors in Müller's muscle induced ipsilateral eyelid ptosis, Fluorogold was applied as a tracer to the proximal stump of the trigeminal proprioceptive nerve in rats. Fluorogold labelled the cell bodies of the trigeminal proprioceptive neurons, not in any regions of the rat brain including the trigeminal ganglion, but in the ipsilateral mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus neighbouring the locus ceruleus. Some Fluorogold particles accumulated in the area of the locus ceruleus. The trigeminal proprioceptive neurons could be considered centrally displaced ganglion cells to transmit afferent signal from the mechanoreceptors in Müller's muscle to the mesencephalon, where they may be able to make excitatory synaptic connections with both the oculomotor neurons and the frontalis muscle motoneurons for the involuntary coordination of the eyelid and eyebrow activities, and potentially to the locus ceruleus.
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- Kenya Fujita
- Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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Lienbacher K, Horn AKE. Palisade endings and proprioception in extraocular muscles: a comparison with skeletal muscles. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS 2012; 106:643-55. [PMID: 23053430 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-012-0519-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Accepted: 09/04/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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This article describes current views on motor and sensory control of extraocular muscles (EOMs) based on anatomical data. The special morphology of EOMs, including their motor innervation, is described in comparison to classical skeletal limb and trunk muscles. The presence of proprioceptive organs is reviewed with emphasis on the palisade endings (PEs), which are unique to EOMs, but the function of which is still debated. In consideration of the current new anatomical data about the location of cell bodies of PEs, a hypothesis on the function of PEs in EOMs and the multiply innervated muscle fibres they are attached to is put forward.
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- Karoline Lienbacher
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department I, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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da Silva Costa RM, Kung J, Poukens V, Demer JL. Nonclassical innervation patterns in mammalian extraocular muscles. Curr Eye Res 2012; 37:761-9. [PMID: 22559851 DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.676699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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PURPOSE The abducens (CN6) and oculomotor (CN3) nerves (nn) enter target extraocular muscles (EOMs) via their global surfaces; the trochlear (CN4) nerve enters the superior oblique (SO) muscle on its orbital surface. Motor nn are classically described as entering the EOMs in their middle thirds. We investigated EOM innervation that does not follow the classic pattern. METHODS Intact, whole orbits of two humans and one each monkey, cow, and rabbit were paraffin embedded, serially sectioned in coronal plane, and prepared with Masson's trichrome and by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) immunohistochemistry. Nerves innervating EOMs were traced from the orbital apex toward the scleral insertion, and some were reconstructed in three dimensions. RESULTS Classical motor nn positive for ChAT entered rectus and SO EOMs and coursed anteriorly, without usually exhibiting recurrent branches. In every orbit, nonclassical (NC) nn entered each EOM well posterior to classical motor nn. These NC nn entered and arborized in the posterior EOMs, mainly within the orbital layer (OL), but often traveled into the global layer or entered an adjacent EOM. Other NC nn originated in the orbital apex and entered each EOM through its orbital surface, ultimately anastomosing with classical motor nn. Mixed sensory and motor nn interconnected EOM spindles. CONCLUSIONS EOMs exhibit a previously undescribed pattern of NC innervation originating in the proximal orbit that partially joins branches of the classical motor nn. This NC innervation appears preferential for the OL, and may have mixed supplemental motor and/or proprioceptive functions, perhaps depending upon species. The origin of the NC innervation is currently unknown.
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- Roberta M da Silva Costa
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of California-Los Angeles, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 100 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7002, USA
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Lienbacher K, Mustari M, Hess B, Büttner-Ennever J, Horn AKE. Is there any sense in the Palisade endings of eye muscles? Ann N Y Acad Sci 2011; 1233:1-7. [PMID: 21950969 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Palisade endings (PEs), which are unique to the eye muscles, are associated with multiply innervated muscle fibers. They lie at the myotendinous junctions and form a cap around the muscle fiber tip. They are found in all animals investigated so far, but their function is not known. Recently, we demonstrated that cell bodies of PEs and tendon organs lie around the periphery of the oculomotor nucleus in the C- and S-groups. A morphological analysis of these peripheral neurons revealed the existence of different populations within the C-group. We propose that a small group of round or spindle-shaped cells gives rise to PEs, and another group of multipolar neurons provide the multiple motor endings. If PEs have a sensory function, then their cell body location close to motor neurons would be in an ideal location to control tension in extraocular muscles; in the case of the C-group, its proximity to the preganglionic neurons of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus would permit its participation in the near response. Despite their unusual properties, PEs may have a sensory function.
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Does orbital proprioception contribute to gaze stability during translation? Exp Brain Res 2011; 215:77-87. [PMID: 21947173 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2873-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2011] [Accepted: 09/08/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Translational motion induces retinal image slip which varies with object distance. The brain must know binocular eye position in real time in order to scale eye movements so as to minimize retinal slip. Two potential sources of eye position information are orbital proprioception and an internal representation of eye position derived from central ocular motor signals. To examine the role of orbital proprioceptive information, the position of the left eye was perturbed by microstimulation of the left abducens nerve during translational motion to the right or left along the interaural axis in two rhesus macaques. Microstimulation rotated the eye laterally, activating eye muscle proprioceptors, while keeping central motor commands undisturbed. We found that microstimulation-induced eye position changes did not affect the translational VOR in the abductive (lateral rectus) direction, but it did influence the responses in the adductive (medial rectus) direction. Our findings demonstrate that proprioceptive inputs appear to be involved in the TVOR responses at least during ipsilateral head movements and proprioceptive influences on the TVOR may involve vergence-related signals to the oculomotor nucleus. However, internal representation of eye position, derived from central ocular motor signals, likely plays the dominant role in providing eye position information for scaling eye movements during translational motion, particularly in the abducent direction.
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Shan X, Hamasaki I, Tian J, Ying HS, Tamargo RJ, Zee DS. Vertical alignment in monkeys with unilateral IV section: effects of prolonged monocular patching and trigeminal deafferentation. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2011; 1233:78-84. [PMID: 21950979 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06172.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigated monocular viewing and trigeminal (V) deafferentation on the vertical deviation (VD) in monkeys following intracranial IV section. Two monkeys wore a patch for four to six weeks, one over the paretic eye and the other over the normal eye following IV section. Two other monkeys had combined IV and V section with the paretic eye patched postlesion. In monkeys with IV section alone, the VD lessened within the first week postlesion but then increased gradually with the same eye still patched. Thus binocular viewing was unnecessary for the later VD increase. With combined IV and V section, the VD also transiently lessened postlesion. We have proposed that the decrease in VD after IV section is adaptive, driven by an error signal using ocular proprioception and efference copy. Since V section did not eliminate the early decrease in VD, we suggest some orbital afference is transmitted centrally via other cranial nerves. However, the later increase in VD suggests either that the proprioceptive effect cannot be sustained or that mechanical changes supervene to increase the VD.
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- Xiaoyan Shan
- Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Lienbacher K, Mustari M, Ying HS, Büttner-Ennever JA, Horn AKE. Do palisade endings in extraocular muscles arise from neurons in the motor nuclei? Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:2510-9. [PMID: 21228383 PMCID: PMC3088547 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2010] [Revised: 10/04/2010] [Accepted: 11/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to localize the cell bodies of palisade endings that are associated with the myotendinous junctions of the extraocular muscles. METHODS Rhesus monkeys received tract-tracer injections (tetramethylrhodamine dextran [TMR-DA] or choleratoxin subunit B [CTB]) into the oculomotor and trochlear nuclei, which contain the motoneurons of extraocular muscles. All extraocular muscles were processed for the combined immunocytochemical detection of the tracer and SNAP-25 or synaptophysin for the visualization of the complete muscle innervation. RESULTS In all muscles--except the lateral rectus--en plaque and en grappe motor endings, but also palisade endings, were anterogradely labeled. In addition a few tracer-labeled tendon organs were found. One group of tracer-negative nerve fibers was identified as thin tyrosine hydroxylase-positive sympathetic fibers, and a second less numerous group of tracer-negative fibers may originate from the trigeminal ganglia. No cellular or terminal tracer labeling was present within the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus or the trigeminal ganglia. CONCLUSIONS These results confirm those of earlier studies and furthermore suggest that the somata of palisade endings are located close to the extraocular motor nuclei--in this case, probably within the C and S groups around the periphery of the oculomotor nucleus. The multiple en grappe endings have also been shown to arise from these cells groups, but it is not possible to distinguish different populations in these experiments.
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- Karoline Lienbacher
- From the Institute of Anatomy I, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- the Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and
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- the Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- From the Institute of Anatomy I, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Accurate diagnosis of abnormal eye movements depends upon knowledge of the purpose, properties, and neural substrate of distinct functional classes of eye movement. Here, we summarize current concepts of the anatomy of eye movement control. Our approach is bottom-up, starting with the extraocular muscles and their innervation by the cranial nerves. Second, we summarize the neural circuits in the pons underlying horizontal gaze control, and the midbrain connections that coordinate vertical and torsional movements. Third, the role of the cerebellum in governing and optimizing eye movements is presented. Fourth, each area of cerebral cortex contributing to eye movements is discussed. Last, descending projections from cerebral cortex, including basal ganglionic circuits that govern different components of gaze, and the superior colliculus, are summarized. At each stage of this review, the anatomical scheme is used to predict the effects of lesions on the control of eye movements, providing clinical-anatomical correlation.
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Zimmermann L, May PJ, Pastor AM, Streicher J, Blumer R. Evidence that the extraocular motor nuclei innervate monkey palisade endings. Neurosci Lett 2010; 489:89-93. [PMID: 21138754 PMCID: PMC3028275 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.11.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2010] [Revised: 11/03/2010] [Accepted: 11/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Palisade endings are found in the extraocular muscles (EOMs) of almost every mammalian species, including primates. These nerve specializations surrounding the muscle fiber insertion have been postulated to be the proprioceptors of the EOMs. However, it was recently demonstrated that palisade endings have a cholinergic nature, which reopened the question of whether palisade endings are motor or sensory structures. In this work, we examined whether the cell bodies of palisade endings lie in EOM motor nuclei by injecting an anterograde tracer, biotinylated dextran amine, into the abducens nucleus of a macaque monkey. Tracer visualization in the lateral rectus muscle was combined with choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and α-bungarotoxin staining. Analysis of the samples was performed by conventional light microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy. About 30% of the nerve fibers innervating the muscle were tracer positive. These were ChAT positive as well. Tracer positive nerve fibers established motor contacts on singly and multiply innervated muscle fibers, which were confirmed by α-bungarotoxin staining. At the transition between muscle and distal tendon, we found palisade endings that contained tracer. Palisade endings exhibited the classic morphology: axons arising from the muscle extend onto the tendon, then turn back 180° and terminate in a cuff of terminals around an individual muscle fiber tip. This finding suggests that the cell bodies of palisade endings lie in the EOM motor nuclei, which complements prior studies demonstrating a cholinergic, and possibly motor, phenotype for palisade endings.
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- Lars Zimmermann
- Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Integrative Morphology Group, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Strasse 13, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Ultrastructural changes in myotendinous nerve endings induced by injection of botulinum toxin into the extraocular muscle. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2010; 248:1795-801. [DOI: 10.1007/s00417-010-1513-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2010] [Revised: 08/30/2010] [Accepted: 09/01/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Antisaccades exhibit diminished online control relative to prosaccades. Exp Brain Res 2010; 203:743-52. [PMID: 20490784 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2290-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2010] [Accepted: 05/01/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Convergent evidence suggests that stimulus-driven saccades (i.e., prosaccades) are mediated via online trajectory modifications (e.g., Gaveau et al. 2003). The goal of the present investigation was to determine whether manipulating the cognitive demands of a saccade influences the extent to which the response's trajectory is structured online. To that end, participants completed pro- and antisaccades (i.e., 180 degrees mirror-symmetrical transformation) to target stimuli that were continuously visible (Experiment 1) or occluded (Experiment 2) during the response. To index trajectory modifications, we computed the proportion of variance (R (2) values) explained by the spatial location of the eye at 10% increments of normalized movement time [i.e., 10, 20, ... 80, 90% of movement time (MT)] relative to the saccade's ultimate movement endpoint. The basis for this analysis is that between-task differences in the magnitude of R (2) values reflect differences in the use of feedback for online trajectory amendments. Results indicated that antisaccades produced larger R (2) values (from 40 to 80% of MT) as well as less accurate and more variable endpoints than their prosaccade counterparts. Such a pattern of results indicates that antisaccades were not controlled online to the same degree as prosaccades. In particular, we propose that the cognitive nature of the antisaccade task disrupts the normally online operation of saccade networks and renders a mode of control that is not optimized for feedback-based trajectory amendments.
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Cui QN, Razavi B, O'Neill WE, Paige GD. Perception of auditory, visual, and egocentric spatial alignment adapts differently to changes in eye position. J Neurophysiol 2009; 103:1020-35. [PMID: 19846626 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00500.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Vision and audition represent the outside world in spatial synergy that is crucial for guiding natural activities. Input conveying eye-in-head position is needed to maintain spatial congruence because the eyes move in the head while the ears remain head-fixed. Recently, we reported that the human perception of auditory space shifts with changes in eye position. In this study, we examined whether this phenomenon is 1) dependent on a visual fixation reference, 2) selective for frequency bands (high-pass and low-pass noise) related to specific auditory spatial channels, 3) matched by a shift in the perceived straight-ahead (PSA), and 4) accompanied by a spatial shift for visual and/or bimodal (visual and auditory) targets. Subjects were tested in a dark echo-attenuated chamber with their heads fixed facing a cylindrical screen, behind which a mobile speaker/LED presented targets across the frontal field. Subjects fixated alternating reference spots (0, +/-20 degrees ) horizontally or vertically while either localizing targets or indicating PSA using a laser pointer. Results showed that the spatial shift induced by ocular eccentricity is 1) preserved for auditory targets without a visual fixation reference, 2) generalized for all frequency bands, and thus all auditory spatial channels, 3) paralleled by a shift in PSA, and 4) restricted to auditory space. Findings are consistent with a set-point control strategy by which eye position governs multimodal spatial alignment. The phenomenon is robust for auditory space and egocentric perception, and highlights the importance of controlling for eye position in the examination of spatial perception and behavior.
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- Qi N Cui
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester Medical Center,Rochester, NY 14642-8603, USA
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La plasticité de la transformation sensori-motrice dans le système visuel : l’adaptation saccadique. ANNEE PSYCHOLOGIQUE 2009. [DOI: 10.4074/s0003503309003066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Collins T, Doré-Mazars K. La plasticité de la transformation sensori-motrice dans le système visuel : l’adaptation saccadique. ANNEE PSYCHOLOGIQUE 2009. [DOI: 10.3917/anpsy.093.0509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Park SE, Sa HS, Oh SY. Innervated myotendinous cylinders alterations in human extraocular muscles in patients with strabismus. KOREAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 2009; 23:93-9. [PMID: 19568357 PMCID: PMC2694299 DOI: 10.3341/kjo.2009.23.2.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2008] [Accepted: 03/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Purpose To analyze innervated myotendinous cylinders (IMCs) in the extraocular muscles (EOMs) of normal subjects and strabismic patients. Methods The rectus muscles of 37 subjects were analyzed. Distal myotendinous specimens were obtained from 3 normal subjects, 20 patients with acquired strabismus, 11 with infantile strabismus, and from 3 with congenital nystagmus, and were studied by using light microscopy. Some specimens (6 rectus muscles) were also examined by transmission electron microscopy. Results IMCs were found in the distal myotendinous regions of EOMs. The IMCs of patients with acquired strabismus showed no significant morphological alterations. However, significant IMCs alterations were observed at the distal myotendinous junction of patients with congenital strabismus and congenital nystagmus. Conclusions This study supports the notion that IMCs in human EOMs function mainly as proprioceptors, along with effector properties, and a disturbance of ocular proprioceptors plays an important role in the pathogenesis of oculomotor disorder. We suggest that a proprioceptive feedback system should be stimulated and calibrated early in life for the development of binocular vision.
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- Sung-Eun Park
- Department of Ophthalmology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Eulji General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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Histochemical characterisation of trigeminal neurons that innervate monkey extraocular muscles. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2009. [PMID: 18718277 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)00603-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Sensory trigeminal innervation is a consistent feature of extraocular muscles across species, in spite of a variable occurrence of muscle spindles. We studied the histochemical properties of trigeminal ganglion (TG) cells projecting to the extraocular eye muscles to obtain more information about their function. In monkey TG neurons were retrogradely filled by tracer injections (cholera toxin subunit B; wheat-germ agglutinin) into the belly or myotendinous junction of eye muscles; one conjunctival injection served as a control. Retrogradely labelled TG neurons were processed for the presence of parvalbumin (PV), substance P (SP), or nitric oxide synthase (NOS) by double-immunofluorescence. The results indicate that approximately 10% of trigeminal afferents to all parts of the eye muscle are PV-positive, whereas around 20% are SP-positive. Twice as many SP-positive TG projection neurons were counted after a conjunctival tracer injection, presumably relaying nociceptive signals. A surprisingly large population of NOS-positive TG cells (30%) was found only after distal tracer injections. Up to now none of these TG cell groups could be related to the palisade endings located at the myotendinous junction.
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Although the five primary senses have traditionally been thought of as separate, examples of their interactions, as well as the neural substrate possibly underlying them, have been identified. Arm position sense, for example, depends on touch, proprioception, and spatial vision of the limb. It is, however, unknown whether position sense is also influenced by more fundamental, nonspatial visual information. Here, we report an illusion that demonstrates that the position sense of the eyelid partly depends on information regarding the relative illumination reported by the two eyes. When only one eye is dark-adapted and both eyes are exposed to a dim environment, the lid of the light-adapted eye feels closed or "droopy." The effect decreases when covering the eye by hand or a patch, thus introducing tactile information congruent with the interocular difference in vision. This reveals that the integration of vision with touch and proprioception is not restricted to higher-level spatial vision, but is instead a more fundamental aspect of sensory processing than has been previously shown.
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Studies of external eye muscle morphology and physiology are reviewed, with respect to both motor and sensory functions in concomitant strabismus. The eye muscles have a more complex fibre composition than other striated muscle, and they are among the fastest and most fatigue-resistant muscles in the body. However, it is not generally believed that concomitant strabismus is due to a primary abnormality of the eye muscles or the ocular motor system. The gross anatomy of eye muscles, including the shape and position of the eye muscle pulleys, was not changed in strabismus. The histology of the eye muscle fibres was also basically the same, but changes have been observed in the cellular and biochemical machinery of the fibres, most notably in the singly innervated orbital fibres. Functionally, this was seen as slower contractions and reduced fatigue resistance of eye muscles in animals with strabismus and defects of binocular vision. Most likely the changes represented an adaptation to modified visual demands on the ocular motor control, because of the defects of binocular vision in strabismus from an early age. Adaptation of eye muscle function to visual demands could be seen also in the adult human ocular motor system, but here the effects could be reversed with treatment in some conditions. External eye muscles in the human have sensory organs, muscle spindles and tendon organs, responding to changes in muscle force and length. It is not known how these proprioceptors are used more specifically in ocular motor control, and there is no stretch reflex in the external eye muscles. However, a clear influence on space localization and eye position can be demonstrated with vibratory stimulation of the eye muscles, presumably activating muscle spindles. Different effects were observed in normal subjects and in adult patients with strabismus, which would indicate that the proprioceptive input from one eye of strabismic patients could be suppressed by the other eye, similar to visual suppression in concomitant strabismus. Such an interaction would most likely occur in the visual cortex, and not in the ocular motor system. Further studies of proprioceptive mechanisms, during the postnatal developmental stage and in adult concomitant strabismus may shed light on the mechanisms of childhood strabismus and may, in this respect, be a more fruitful avenue for further research than eye motor studies.
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- Gunnar Lennerstrand
- Department of Ophthalmology, Karolinska Institutet, St Erik's Eye Hospital, Bernadotte Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Tribukait A, Eiken O. The human sense of the head’s polarity is influenced by changes in the magnitude of gravity. Brain Cogn 2007; 63:24-30. [PMID: 16935402 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2005] [Revised: 07/11/2006] [Accepted: 07/15/2006] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The present investigation concerns the integrity of a primary mental function, the egocentric frame of reference and the sense of polarity of one's own head. The visually perceived eye level (VPEL) and the subjective antero-posterior axis of the head were measured by means of a visual indicator in darkness during two stimulus conditions: static pitch (sagittal-plane) tilting in the 1-g environment and gondola centrifugation (2G). It is demonstrated that an increase in the magnitude of the gravitoinertial (G) force, acting in the direction of the head and body long (z) axis, causes a substantial change not only in the VPEL but also in the perceived direction of the antero-posterior axis of the head.
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- Arne Tribukait
- Defence Research Agency, FOI Centre for Environmental Physiology, Berzelius väg 13, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Dancause N, Taylor MD, Plautz EJ, Radel JD, Whittaker T, Nudo RJ, Feldman AG. A stretch reflex in extraocular muscles of species purportedly lacking muscle spindles. Exp Brain Res 2007; 180:15-21. [PMID: 17216145 PMCID: PMC3230225 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0833-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2006] [Accepted: 12/13/2006] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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It is generally assumed that proprioceptive feedback plays a crucial role in limb posture and movement. However, the role of afferent signals from extraocular muscles (EOM) in the control of eye movement has been a matter of continuous debate. These muscles have atypical sensory receptors in several species and it has been proposed that they are not supported by stretch reflexes. We recorded electromyographic activity of EOM during passive rotations of the eye in sedated rats and squirrel monkeys and observed typical stretch reflexes in these muscles. Results suggest that there is a similarity in the reflexive control of limb and eye movement, despite substantial differences in their biomechanics and sensory receptors. Like in some limb skeletal muscles, the stretch reflex in EOM in the investigated species might be mediated by other length-sensitive receptors, rather than muscle spindles.
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- Numa Dancause
- Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 673, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Human extraocular muscles are richly endowed with sensory receptors. The precise role of afferent signals derived from these proprioceptors in ocular motor control and spatial localization has been the subject of considerable debate for more than a century. Laboratory-based and clinical studies have increasingly suggested that proprioceptive signals from extraocular muscles influence visuomotor behavior.
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- Clifford R Weir
- Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow G12 0YN, United Kingdom.
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Blumer R, Konacki KZ, Streicher J, Hoetzenecker W, Blumer MJF, Lukas JR. Proprioception in the extraocular muscles of mammals and man. Strabismus 2006; 14:101-6. [PMID: 16760116 DOI: 10.1080/09273970600701192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This article summarizes the authors' previous studies on proprioceptors in extraocular muscles (EOMs) of mammals and man. They report on muscle spindles in the EOMs of man, Golgi tendon organs in the EOMs of even-toed ungulates, and palisade endings in the EOMs of the cat. Muscle spindles: Muscle spindles are present in the EOMs of some mammals and in the EOMs of man. Compared with muscle spindles in other skeletal muscles, those in human EOMs exhibit structural differences. These structural differences may indicate a special function. Golgi tendon organs: Golgi tendon organs are absent in human EOMs. Golgi tendon organs exhibiting a specific morphology are present in the EOMs of even-toed ungulates. Their high number and rich innervation indicate functional importance. Palisade endings: Palisade endings are nervous end organs confined to the EOMs of mammals and man. It is assumed that these organs have a proprioceptive function. The authors show that palisade endings are immunoreactive for antibodies against choline acetyltransferase. Neuromuscular contacts, if present in palisade endings, are alpha -bungarotoxin positive as well. Taken together, these results show that palisade endings exhibit molecular characteristics of effector organs.
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- Roland Blumer
- Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Integrative Morphology Group, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
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von Bartheld CS, Fritzsch B. Comparative analysis of neurotrophin receptors and ligands in vertebrate neurons: tools for evolutionary stability or changes in neural circuits? BRAIN, BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION 2006; 68:157-72. [PMID: 16912469 DOI: 10.1159/000094085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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To better understand the role of multiple neurotrophin ligands and their receptors in vertebrate brain evolution, we examined the distribution of trk neurotrophin receptors in representatives of several vertebrate classes. Trk receptors are largely expressed in homologous neuronal populations among different species/classes of vertebrates. In many neurons, trkB and trkC receptors are co-expressed. TrkB and trkC receptors are primarily found in neurons with more restricted, specialized dendritic and axonal fields that are thought to be involved in discriminative or 'analytical' functions. The neurotrophin receptor trkA is expressed predominantly in neurons with larger, overlapping dendritic fields with more heterogeneous connections ('integrative' or 'modulatory' systems) such as nociceptive and sympathetic autonomic nervous system, locus coeruleus and cholinergic basal forebrain. Surveys of trk receptor expression and function in the peripheral nervous system of different vertebrate classes reveal trends ranging from dependency on a single neurotrophin to a more complex dependency on increasing numbers of neurotrophins and their receptors, for example, in taste and inner ear innervation. Gene deletion studies in mice provide evidence for a complex regulation of neuronal survival of sensory ganglion cells by different neurotrophins. Although expression of neurotrophins and their receptors is predominantly conserved in most circuits, increasing diversity of neurotrophin ligands and their receptors and a more complex dependency of neurons on neurotrophins might have facilitated the formation of at least some new neuronal entities.
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Kim SH, Yi ST, Cho YA, Uhm CS. Ultrastructural study of extraocular muscle tendon axonal profiles in infantile and intermittent exotropia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 84:182-7. [PMID: 16637833 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00556.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE To investigate the ultrastructures of tendon axonal profiles in infantile and intermittent exotropia. Tendon axonal profiles are composed of myotendinous nerve endings that are presumed to serve as sensorial receptors in ocular proprioception. METHODS The study subjects included 10 patients with exotropia who had undergone surgery in one eye (recession and resection). They were divided into two equal groups. Five patients with infantile exotropia that had developed at under 12 months of age were allocated to group A. Another five, with intermittent exotropia that had developed at over 12 months of age, were allocated to group B. In all patients, medial recti were resected by 3-4 mm in order to obtain tissue samples, which were then examined under an electron microscope. RESULTS In group A, we noted many axonal degenerative findings, such as the retraction of axons from myelin sheaths with considerable shrinkage, axonal disintegration, and Schwann cell proliferation. On the other hand, we identified three unique findings in group B: intact axons with incomplete Schwann cell wrapping; intact Schwann cells not associated with axons, and disorganized Schwann cells with shrunken axons. CONCLUSION Different patterns of tendon axonal profiles were seen in association with the two types of exotropia. These differences may be related to the pathogenesis of these exotropia types.
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- Seung-Hyun Kim
- Department of Ophthalmology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Blohm G, Optican LM, Lefèvre P. A model that integrates eye velocity commands to keep track of smooth eye displacements. J Comput Neurosci 2006; 21:51-70. [PMID: 16633937 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-7199-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2005] [Revised: 01/12/2006] [Accepted: 01/13/2006] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Past results have reported conflicting findings on the oculomotor system's ability to keep track of smooth eye movements in darkness. Whereas some results indicate that saccades cannot compensate for smooth eye displacements, others report that memory-guided saccades during smooth pursuit are spatially correct. Recently, it was shown that the amount of time before the saccade made a difference: short-latency saccades were retinotopically coded, whereas long-latency saccades were spatially coded. Here, we propose a model of the saccadic system that can explain the available experimental data. The novel part of this model consists of a delayed integration of efferent smooth eye velocity commands. Two alternative physiologically realistic neural mechanisms for this integration stage are proposed. Model simulations accurately reproduced prior findings. Thus, this model reconciles the earlier contradictory reports from the literature about compensation for smooth eye movements before saccades because it involves a slow integration process.
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- Gunnar Blohm
- CESAME, Université catholique de Louvain, 4, avenue G. Lemaître, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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Eberhorn AC, Horn AKE, Fischer P, Büttner-Ennever JA. Proprioception and Palisade Endings in Extraocular Eye Muscles. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1039:1-8. [PMID: 15826956 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Palisade endings occur only in extraocular muscles, and their function is unknown. They form a cuff of nerve terminals around the tips of muscle fibers. We describe here the advantages of using antibodies to a synaptosomal-associated protein (SNAP-25) to study properties of palisade endings in man, monkey, and rat. The stain can be combined readily with other immunofluorescence procedures, and results suggest that the synapses of palisade endings do not bind alpha-bungarotoxin (i.e., are not motor), nor do they contain substance P. These double-labeling data support the hypothesis that palisade endings are non-nociceptive sensory receptors, and could serve a proprioceptive function. With SNAP-25 immunolabeling, palisade endings were identified in the rat for the first time. Thus, palisade endings appear to be present in all vertebrate extraocular muscles studied to date. Their apparent universality, which contrasts with the more variable manifestation of extraocular muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs, would be expected if proprioceptive feedback is necessary to the function of the ocular motor system, and if palisade endings are the critical proprioceptive structure.
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- Andreas C Eberhorn
- Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Pettenkoferstr 11, D-80336 Munich, Germany.
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Büttner-Ennever JA, Konakci KZ, Blumer R. Sensory control of extraocular muscles. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2006; 151:81-93. [PMID: 16221586 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(05)51003-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The role of sensory receptors in eye muscles is not well understood, but there is physiological and clinical evidence for the presence of proprioceptive signals in many areas of the central nervous system. It is unclear which structures generate these sensory signals, and which central neural pathways are involved. Three different types of receptors are associated with eye muscles: (1) muscle spindles, (2) palisade endings, and (3) Golgi tendon organs, but their occurrence varies wildly between species. A review of their organization shows that each receptor is mainly confined to a morphologically separate layer of the eye muscle. The palisade endings - which are unique to eye muscles, are associated with the global layer; and they have been found in all mammals studied so far. Their function is unknown. The muscle spindles, if they are present in a species, lie in the orbital layer, or at its junction to the global layer. Golgi tendon organs appear to be unique to artiodactyls (i.e., sheep and goats, etc.); they lie in an outer distal marginal layer of the eye muscle, called the "peripheral patch layer" in sheep. The specific association between palisade endings and the multiply innervated type of muscle fibers of the global layer has led to the hypothesis that together they may act as a sensory receptor, and provide a source of central proprioceptive signals. But other interpretations of the morphological evidence do not support this role.
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- J A Büttner-Ennever
- Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Pettenkoferstrasse 11, D-80336 Munich, Germany.
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Hoffmann H, Schenck W, Möller R. Learning visuomotor transformations for gaze-control and grasping. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS 2005; 93:119-30. [PMID: 16028074 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-005-0575-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2005] [Accepted: 04/14/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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For reaching to and grasping of an object, visual information about the object must be transformed into motor or postural commands for the arm and hand. In this paper, we present a robot model for visually guided reaching and grasping. The model mimics two alternative processing pathways for grasping, which are also likely to coexist in the human brain. The first pathway directly uses the retinal activation to encode the target position. In the second pathway, a saccade controller makes the eyes (cameras) focus on the target, and the gaze direction is used instead as positional input. For both pathways, an arm controller transforms information on the target's position and orientation into an arm posture suitable for grasping. For the training of the saccade controller, we suggest a novel staged learning method which does not require a teacher that provides the necessary motor commands. The arm controller uses unsupervised learning: it is based on a density model of the sensor and the motor data. Using this density, a mapping is achieved by completing a partially given sensorimotor pattern. The controller can cope with the ambiguity in having a set of redundant arm postures for a given target. The combined model of saccade and arm controller was able to fixate and grasp an elongated object with arbitrary orientation and at arbitrary position on a table in 94% of trials.
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- Heiko Hoffmann
- Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Robotics, 80799, Munich, Germany.
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Baljet B, VanderWerf F. Connections between the lacrimal gland and sensory trigeminal neurons: a WGA/HRP study in the cynomolgous monkey. J Anat 2005; 206:257-63. [PMID: 15733298 PMCID: PMC1571477 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00374.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The sensory innervation of the lacrimal gland (LG) in the cynomolgous monkey was studied using the retrograde wheat germ agglutinin/horsereadish peroxidase (WGA/HRP) tracer technique. A small solidified piece of WGA/HRP was implanted in the LG. Labelled sensory first-order neurons were found in the ipsilateral trigeminal ganglion (TG) and in the ipsilateral mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN). The distribution of labelled TG neurons was restricted to ophthalmic and maxillary ganglionic parts. Sensory innervation of LG by primary afferents is not only restricted to TG; an MTN involvement has also been found. This may imply that there is a central sensory role in the production and release of tears.
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- Bob Baljet
- Department of Neurosciences, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Eberhorn AC, Horn AKE, Eberhorn N, Fischer P, Boergen KP, Büttner-Ennever JA. Palisade endings in extraocular eye muscles revealed by SNAP-25 immunoreactivity. J Anat 2005; 206:307-15. [PMID: 15733303 PMCID: PMC1571482 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00378.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Palisade endings form a cuff of nerve terminals around the tip of muscle fibres. They are found only in extraocular muscles, but no definite evidence for their role in eye movements has been established. Palisade endings have been reported in all species so far investigated except the rat. In this study we demonstrate that antibodies against SNAP-25, the synaptosomal associated protein of 25 kDa, reliably visualize the complete motor, sensory and autonomic innervation of the extraocular muscles in human, monkey and rat. The SNAP-25 antibody can be combined with other immunofluorescence procedures, and is used here to study properties of palisade endings. With SNAP-25 immunolabelling putative palisade endings are identified in the rat for the first time. They are not well branched, but fulfil several criteria of palisade endings, being associated with non-twitch fibres as shown by double labelling with 'myosin heavy chain slow-twitch' antibodies. The putative palisade endings of the rat lack alpha-bungarotoxin binding, which implies that these synapses are sensory. If palisade endings are sensory then they could function as an eye muscle proprioceptor. They seem to be a general feature of all vertebrate eye muscles, unlike the other two extraocular proprioceptors, muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs, the presence of which varies widely between species.
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Douglas RH. Gordon L. Ruskell: optometrist, teacher and anatomist. J Anat 2005; 206:209-15. [PMID: 15733291 PMCID: PMC1571468 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00375.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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- R H Douglas
- Henry Wellcome Laboratory for Vision Sciences, Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University, London, UK.
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Wasicky R, Horn AKE, Büttner-Ennever JA. Twitch and nontwitch motoneuron subgroups in the oculomotor nucleus of monkeys receive different afferent projections. J Comp Neurol 2004; 479:117-29. [PMID: 15452829 DOI: 10.1002/cne.20296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Motoneurons in the primate oculomotor nucleus can be divided into two categories, those supplying twitch muscle fibers and those supplying nontwitch muscle fibers. Recent studies have shown that twitch motoneurons lie within the classical oculomotor nucleus (nIII), and nontwitch motoneurons lie around the borders. Nontwitch motoneurons of medial and inferior rectus are in the C group dorsomedial to nIII, whereas those of inferior oblique and superior rectus lie near the midline are in the S group. In this anatomical study, afferents to the twitch and nontwitch subgroups of nIII have been anterogradely labeled by injections of tritiated leucine into three areas and compared. 1) Abducens nucleus injections gave rise to silver grain deposits over all medial rectus subgroups, both twitch and nontwitch. 2) Laterally placed vestibular complex injections that included the central superior vestibular nucleus labeled projections only in twitch motoneuron subgroups. However, injections into the parvocellular medial vestibular nucleus (mvp), or Y group, resulted in labeled terminals over both twitch and nontwitch motoneurons. 3) Pretectal injections that included the nucleus of the optic tract (NOT), and the olivary pretectal nucleus (OLN), labeled terminals only over nontwitch motoneurons, in the contralateral C group and in the S group. Our study demonstrates that twitch and nontwitch motoneuron subgroups do not receive identical afferent inputs. They can be controlled either in parallel, or independently, suggesting that they have basically different functions. We propose that twitch motoneurons primarily drive eye movements and nontwitch motoneurons the tonic muscle activity, as in gaze holding and vergence, possibly involving a proprioceptive feedback system.
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- Richard Wasicky
- Institute of Anatomy, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Eye muscles are unusual in several ways; one is that they have up to three different layers-the inner global layer, the outer orbital layer, and in some species an external marginal layer has been described. In sheep this is called the "peripheral patch layer." Three different types of proprioceptors are found in eye muscles-muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs, and palisade endings. A survey of the organization of their location leads us to the hypothesis that each receptor is confined to a separate layer of the eye muscle. The palisade endings are associated with the global layer, the muscle spindles lie predominantly in the orbital layer, and the Golgi tendon organs are found only in the peripheral patch layer. This well-organized scheme may help us to understand the proprioceptive system in eye muscles.
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- J A Büttner-Ennever
- Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany.
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Wurtz RH, Sommer MA. Identifying corollary discharges for movement in the primate brain. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2004; 144:47-60. [PMID: 14650839 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(03)14403-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The brain keeps track of the movements it makes so as to process sensory input accurately and coordinate complex movements gracefully. In this chapter we review the brain's strategies for keeping track of fast, saccadic eye movements. One way it does this is by monitoring copies of saccadic motor commands, or corollary discharges. It has been difficult to identify corollary discharge signals in the primate brain, although in some studies the influence of corollary discharge, for example on visual processing, has been found. We propose four criteria for identifying corollary discharge signals in primate brain based on our experiences studying a pathway from superior colliculus, in the brainstem, through mediodorsal thalamus to frontal eye field, in the prefrontal cortex. First, the signals must originate from a brain structure involved in generating movements. Second, they must begin just prior to movements and represent spatial attributes of the movements. Third, eliminating the signals should not impair movements in simple tasks not requiring corollary discharge. Fourth, eliminating the signals should, however, disrupt movements in tasks that require corollary discharge, such as a double-step task in which the monkey must keep track of one saccade in order to correctly generate another. Applying these criteria to the pathway from superior colliculus to frontal eye field, we concluded that it does indeed convey corollary discharge signals. The extent to which cerebral cortex actually uses these signals, particularly in the realm of sensory perception, remains unknown pending further studies. Moreover, many other ascending pathways from brainstem to cortex remain to be explored in behaving monkeys, and some of these, too, may carry corollary discharge signals.
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- Robert H Wurtz
- Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 49, Room 2A50, MSC 4435, NEI, NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-4435, USA.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recent studies on the various forms of infantile-onset nystagmus have advanced our understanding of these disorders. The previously described waveforms of infantile nystagmus syndrome (congenital nystagmus) may be identified in infants less than 7 months of age, including the more mature forms; the visual status of these patients may be directly correlated with their mean foveation times. RECENT FINDINGS Refractive errors in patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome do not follow the expected trend toward emmetropization during infancy and early childhood. A study on the torsional component of nystagmus present in most patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome found it to be generated centrally and not by peripheral or mechanical dynamics. Two psychophysical studies on patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome revealed significant differences compared with control subjects. Two different animal models imply that lack of normal visual motion during a critical period of development in infancy leads to infantile nystagmus syndrome. An electron microscopic study of the enthesis site-where the extraocular muscle tendon inserts onto the sclera-in normal individuals versus patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome revealed significant abnormalities in the latter. Significant demographic and socioeconomic differences were reported between patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome and those with spasmus nutans. SUMMARY New evidence supports a role for sympathomimetic modulation of infantile nystagmus syndrome. Novel surgical treatments for infantile nystagmus syndrome are also discussed.
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- Mitra Maybodi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
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Chen J, Butowt R, Rind HB, von Bartheld CS. GDNF increases the survival of developing oculomotor neurons through a target-derived mechanism. Mol Cell Neurosci 2003; 24:41-56. [PMID: 14550767 DOI: 10.1016/s1044-7431(03)00098-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is the most potent motoneuron survival factor. We show here that in the chick oculomotor system, endogenous GDNF is derived largely from extraocular muscle but less from glial cells and not from muscle spindles. Increased levels of GDNF exclusively in the target rescued 30% of oculomotor neurons that would normally die during developmental cell death, a rate of rescue similar to that with systemic GDNF application. Thus, GDNF supports motoneuron survival in a retrograde, target-derived fashion, as opposed to a local paracrine route or an indirect route via sensory afferents. Persephin, another member of the GDNF family, did not increase survival with target delivery, despite its retrograde transport from the target. Unlike GDNF, however, persephin increased neurite outgrowth from oculomotor nuclei in vitro. Thus, one GDNF family member acts as a muscle-derived retrograde survival factor, whereas another one has distinct functions on neurite outgrowth.
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- Jennifer Chen
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, MS 352, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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Büttner-Ennever JA, Horn AKE. Oculomotor system: a dual innervation of the eye muscles from the abducens, trochlear, and oculomotor nuclei. Mov Disord 2003; 17 Suppl 2:S2-3. [PMID: 11836742 DOI: 10.1002/mds.10046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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