Functional organization of vestibulofastigial projection in the horizontal semicircular canal system in the cat

Experimental Brain Research
N FuruyaH Shimazu

Abstract

Spike potentials of fastigial nucleus neurons were recorded extracellularly in decerebrate, unanesthetized cats. The neurons responding to head rotation in the horizontal plane with a type I fashion were located mainly in the middle and caudal regions of the fastigial nucleus. Three fourth of these fastigial type I neurons were antidromically activated by stimulation of the contralateral vestibular nuclei. These neurons were excited transsynaptically from the ipsilateral vestibular nerve or nuclei. Intra cellular recordings were made from those neurons which were located in the caudal half of the fastigial nucleus and were activated antidromically from the contralateral vestibular nuclei. Stimulation of the ipsilateral vestibular nerve produced EPSPs in these neurons with latencies of 1.0-6.6 msec. The shortest conduction time along primary vestibular aggerents from the labyrinth to the ipsilateral fastigial nucleus was 0,7 msec. The EPSPs with the shortest latency of 1.0 msec were therefore postulated to be due to monosynaptic connections of primary vestibular afferents with fastigial neurons. Stimulation of ipsilateral vestibular nuclei also produced monosynaptic EPSPs in fastigial neurons. These EPSPs were facilitated by con...Continue Reading

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