Article: Thalamic circuitry and thalamocortical synchrony.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
2002 Volume 357, Issue 1428, Page(s) 1659–1673
Abstract: The corticothalamic system has an important role in synchronizing the activities of thalamic and ... populations of cortical and thalamic cells during high-frequency oscillations that underlie discrete conscious ... at synapses formed by branches of the same corticothalamic axon in the RTN and dorsal thalamus are ...
Abstract | The corticothalamic system has an important role in synchronizing the activities of thalamic and cortical neurons. Numerically, its synapses dominate the inputs to relay cells and to the gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)ergic cells of the reticular nucleus (RTN). The capacity of relay neurons to operate in different voltage-dependent functional modes determines that the inputs from the cortex have the capacity directly to excite the relay cells, or indirectly to inhibit them via the RTN, serving to synchronize high- or low-frequency oscillatory activity respectively in the thalamocorticothalamic network. Differences in the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) subunit composition of receptors at synapses formed by branches of the same corticothalamic axon in the RTN and dorsal thalamus are an important element in the capacity of the cortex to synchronize low-frequency oscillations in the network. Interactions of focused corticothalamic axons arising from layer VI cortical cells and diffuse corticothalamic axons arising from layer V cortical cells, with the specifically projecting core relay cells and diffusely projecting matrix cells of the dorsal thalamus, form a substrate for synchronization of widespread populations of cortical and thalamic cells during high-frequency oscillations that underlie discrete conscious events. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Cerebral Cortex/anatomy & histology ; Cerebral Cortex/physiology ; Mammals ; Microscopy, Immunoelectron ; Neural Pathways/anatomy & histology ; Neural Pathways/physiology ; Primates ; Synapses/physiology ; Thalamus/anatomy & histology ; Thalamus/physiology ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/physiology |
Chemical Substances | gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (56-12-2) |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2002-12-29 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. ; Review |
ZDB-ID | 208382-6 |
ISSN | 1471-2970 ; 0962-8436 ; 0080-4622 ; 0264-3839 |
ISSN (online) | 1471-2970 |
ISSN | 0962-8436 ; 0080-4622 ; 0264-3839 |
DOI | 10.1098/rstb.2002.1168 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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