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Hernández RG, Benítez-Temiño B, de la Cruz RR, Pastor AM. Relative contribution of lateral vestibular neuron and abducens internuclear neuron inputs to the discharge activity of medial rectus motoneurons. Brain Struct Funct 2024; 229:183-194. [PMID: 38032515 PMCID: PMC10827814 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02736-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
Abstract
Medial rectus motoneurons mediate nasally directed horizontal eye movements. These motoneurons receive two major excitatory inputs, from the abducens internuclear neurons (ABD Ints) and neurons of the lateral vestibular nucleus whose axons course through the ascending tract of Deiters (ATD). In the present work, we have recorded in the alert chronic cat preparation the discharge activity of these two premotor neurons simultaneously with eye movements, to discern their relative contribution to the firing pattern of medial rectus motoneurons. ABD Int discharge was accurately correlated with eye movements, displaying high sensitivities to eye position and eye velocity. ATD neurons also discharged in relation to spontaneous and vestibular eye movements but showed significantly lower eye position and eye velocity sensitivities. Outstandingly, ATD neurons presented a significantly lower eye position threshold for recruitment compared to both ABD Ints and medial rectus motoneurons. Therefore, ATD neurons exhibited eye position and velocity signals during spontaneous and vestibular eye movements, which were of lower magnitude than those of ABD Ints, but due to their low recruitment threshold, they could play a significant role in facilitating ABD Int signal transmission onto medial rectus motoneurons.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rosendo G Hernández
- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain.
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain.
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Nikolenko VN, Rizaeva NA, Oganesyan MV, Vekhova KA, Alyautdinova NAF, Balan SI, Karashaeva TA, Bolotskaya AA. Brain commissures and related pathologies. NEUROLOGY, NEUROPSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOSOMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.14412/2074-2711-2022-6-73-79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- V. N. Nikolenko
- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University
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- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University
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- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University
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- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University)
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- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University)
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- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University)
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Li M, Yeh FC, Zeng Q, Wu X, Wang X, Zhu Z, Liu X, Liang J, Chen G, Zhang H, Feng Y, Li M. The trajectory of the medial longitudinal fasciculus in the human brain: A diffusion imaging-based tractography study. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:6070-6086. [PMID: 34597450 PMCID: PMC8596984 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the trajectory of medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) and explore its anatomical relationship with the oculomotor nerve using tractography technique. The MLF and oculomotor nerve were reconstructed at the same time with preset three region of interests (ROIs): one set at the area of rostral midbrain, one placed on the MLF area at the upper pons, and one placed at the cisternal part of the oculomotor nerve. This mapping protocol was tested in an HCP‐1065 template, 35 health subjects from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), 20 healthy adults and 6 brainstem cavernous malformation (BCM) patients with generalized q‐sampling imaging (GQI)‐based tractography. Finally, the 200 μm brainstem template from Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University (Duke CIVM), was used to validate the trajectory of reconstructed MLF. The MLF and oculomotor nerve were reconstructed in the HCP‐1065 template, 35 MGH health subjects, 20 healthy adults and 6 BCM patients. The MLF was in conjunction with the ipsilateral mesencephalic part of the oculomotor nerve. The displacement of MLF was identified in all BCM patients. Decreased QA, RDI and FA were found in the MLF of lesion side, indicating axonal loss and/or edema of displaced MLF. The reconstructed MLF in Duke CIVM brainstem 200 μm template corresponded well with histological anatomy. The MLF and oculomotor nerve were visualized accurately with our protocol using GQI‐based fiber tracking. This GQI‐based tractography is an important tool in the reconstruction and evaluation of MLF.
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- Mengjun Li
- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute of Information Processing and Automation, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.,Zhejiang Provincial United Key Laboratory of Embedded Systems, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Information Processing and Automation, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.,Zhejiang Provincial United Key Laboratory of Embedded Systems, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
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Bennetto L, Lueck CJ. Wall-eyed bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia (WEBINO): what does it mean to be wall-eyed? Pract Neurol 2021; 22:4-5. [PMID: 34836932 DOI: 10.1136/practneurol-2021-003157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Luke Bennetto
- Department of Neurology, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
- Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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