Evidence for differential cortical input to direct pathway versus indirect pathway striatal projection neurons in rats

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Wanlong LeiA Reiner

Abstract

The two main types of corticostriatal neurons are those that project only intratelencephalically (IT-type), the intrastriatal terminals of which are 0.41 microm in mean diameter, and those that send their main axon into pyramidal tract and have a collateral projection to striatum (PT-type), the intrastriatal terminals of which are 0.82 microm in mean diameter. We used three approaches to examine whether the two striatal projection neuron types (striatonigral direct pathway vs striatopallidal indirect pathway) differ in their input from IT-type and PT-type neurons. First, we retrogradely labeled one striatal projection neuron type or the other with biotinylated dextran amine (BDA)-3000 molecular weight. We found that terminals making asymmetric axospinous contact with striatonigral neurons were 0.43 microm in mean diameter, whereas those making asymmetric axospinous contact with striatopallidal neurons were 0.69 microm. Second, we preferentially immunolabeled striatonigral neurons for D1 dopamine receptors or striatopallidal neurons for D2 dopamine receptors and found that axospinous terminals had a smaller mean size (0.45 microm) on D1+ spines than on D2+ spines (0.61 microm). Finally, we combined selective BDA labeling of IT-t...Continue Reading

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