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Stephan KE. The history of CoCoMac. Neuroimage 2013; 80:46-52. [PMID: 23523808 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Revised: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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CoCoMac, the "Collation of Connectivity Data for the Macaque" is a relational database system which presently constitutes the largest electronic repository of published neuroanatomical connectivity data. Developed since 1996, CoCoMac comprises approximately 40,000 experimental findings on anatomical connections in the macaque brain, as derived from neuroanatomical tract tracing studies. In this historical review, I describe the origin and the history of CoCoMac from a personal perspective, illustrate the principles of its structure and outline the impact it has had on systems neuroscience, in particular as a prelude to the "Human Connectome" research programme.
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- Klaas Enno Stephan
- Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich & Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
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Jones RSG, Woodhall GL. Background synaptic activity in rat entorhinal cortical neurones: differential control of transmitter release by presynaptic receptors. J Physiol 2004; 562:107-20. [PMID: 15498804 PMCID: PMC1665486 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.076133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The entorhinal cortex (EC) is a key brain area controlling both hippocampal input and output via neurones in layer II and layer V, respectively. It is also a pivotal area in the generation and propagation of epilepsies involving the temporal lobe. We have previously shown that within the network of the EC, neurones in layer V are subject to powerful synaptic excitation but weak inhibition, whereas the reverse is true in layer II. The deep layers are also highly susceptible to acutely provoked epileptogenesis. Considerable evidence now points to a role of spontaneous background synaptic activity in control of neuronal, and hence network, excitability. In the present article we describe results of studies where we have compared background release of the excitatory transmitter, glutamate, and the inhibitory transmitter, GABA, in the two layers, the role of this background release in the balance of excitability, and its control by presynaptic auto- and heteroreceptors on presynaptic terminals.
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- Roland S G Jones
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
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Ulbert I, Heit G, Madsen J, Karmos G, Halgren E. Laminar analysis of human neocortical interictal spike generation and propagation: current source density and multiunit analysis in vivo. Epilepsia 2004; 45 Suppl 4:48-56. [PMID: 15281959 DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.04011.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Multicontact microelectrodes were chronically implanted in epilepsy patients undergoing subdural grid implantation for seizure localization. Current source density and multiple unit activity of interictal spikes (IISs) were sampled every approximately 150 microm in a line traversing all layers of a cortical column. Our data suggest that interictal epileptiform events in humans are initiated by large postsynaptic depolarizations, consistent with the hypothesis that human IISs correspond to animal paroxysmal depolarization shifts. Furthermore, the cortical layer where the initial depolarization occurs may differ according to whether the IIS is locally generated or propagated from a distant location, and among the propagated IISs, whether the IIS is in the direct path of propagation or on the periphery of that path.
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- Istvan Ulbert
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, USA
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Pavlovic M, Jarebinski M, Pekmezovic T, Levic Z. Seizure disorders in preschool children in a Serbian district. Neuroepidemiology 2000; 17:105-10. [PMID: 9592787 DOI: 10.1159/000026160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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All children born in 1989 and 1990 in the district of Krusevac in Central Serbia (population 140,000) were followed to the end of 1995. The total number of children was 3,102. The cumulative incidence of febrile seizures was 25.1/1,000, that of single febrile seizures 3.9/1,000 and that of epilepsy (i.e. recurrent afebrile seizures) 6.5/1,000. The peak age-specific rate of the first febrile and the first afebrile seizure was in the second year of life (11.6/1,000 and 2.9/1,000, respectively). Among 20 cases of epileptic children, the most common type of seizure was the generalized type--14 cases (70%), while 6 children (30%) suffered from partial seizures. Of these epileptic children, there were 7 children (35%) with associated neurological abnormalities and/or mental retardation, including one with tuberous sclerosis. Thirteen of the total number of epilepsy cases were considered as having active epilepsy (i.e. still having had seizures and/or being on antiepileptic therapy). The calculated point prevalence rate was 4.2/1,000 on December 31, 1995.
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- M Pavlovic
- Department of Pediatrics, General Hospital of Krusevac Medical Center, Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia
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In the vertebrate retina, it is well known that an ON/OFF dichotomy is present. In other words, ON-center and OFF-center cells participate in segregated pathways morphologically and physiologically. However, there is no doubt that integration of both channels is necessary to generate the complicated response properties of visual neurons in higher optic centers. So far, functional organization of the ON and OFF channels in the optic centers has not been demonstrated at the level of neuronal populations. In this review article, we summarize our experimental approaches to demonstrate functional organization of the ON and OFF channels using current source density (CSD) analysis in the frog optic tectum. First, we show that one-dimensional CSD analysis, assuming constant conductivity, is applicable in the tectal laminated structure. The CSD depth profile of a response to electrical stimulation of the optic tract is composed of three current sinks (A, B, and D) in the retinorecipient layers and two current sinks (C and E) below those layers. This result is in agreement with previous morphological and physiological findings, and shows that CSD analysis is very useful to demonstrate the flow of visual information processing. Second, CSD analysis of tectal responses evoked by diffuse light ON and OFF stimuli reveals obviously different distributions of synaptic activity in the laminar structure. Two or three current sinks (I, II and III) are generated in response to ON stimulation only in the retinorecipient layers, while up to six current sinks (IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX) to OFF stimulation throughout the tectal layers. Based on well known properties of retinal ganglion cells of the frog, possible neuronal mechanisms underlying each current sinks and their functional roles in visually guided behavior are considered.
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- H Nakagawa
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Köhling R, Qü M, Zilles K, Speckmann EJ. Current-source-density profiles associated with sharp waves in human epileptic neocortical tissue. Neuroscience 2000; 94:1039-50. [PMID: 10625046 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(99)00327-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In human neocortical slices obtained during epilepsy surgery, sharp waves have been described to appear spontaneously, the shape of which met all criteria of epileptiform field potentials. In the present investigation, the current sinks and sources underlying these potentials were analysed. The cortical tissue used in the present study was a small portion of the tissue blocks excised for treatment of pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. The tissue came from the temporal (n = 26), frontal (n = 1) and parietal (n = 1) lobes. Slices of 500 microm thickness were cut in the frontal plane perpendicular to the pial surface. Field potentials were recorded using a linear array of eight wire electrodes (diameter: 33 microm) with interelectrode distances of 300 microm. To scan a slice for sharp field potentials, this array was placed perpendicular to the pial surface at the midsection of each preparation, and consecutively at the respective midsections of the resulting halves of the slice. Each of these locations was termed a recording line. Depending on the appearance of spontaneous potentials, recording lines and slices were classified as either spontaneous or non-spontaneous. With both spontaneous and zero Mg(2+)-induced interictal discharges, in spontaneous slices, current sinks were preferentially located in layers II and III. In non-spontaneous slices, current sinks associated with interictal potentials could be found throughout all cortical laminae. With zero Mg(2+)-induced ictal activity, in spontaneous slices, the initial sinks were preferentially located in cortical laminae II and IIIa, and were shifted to lower ones after additional application of bicuculline. In non-spontaneous slices, no ictal-type discharges could be induced with omission of Mg2+ from the superfusate. Only addition of bicuculline elicited ictal-type activity, and sinks associated with this were preferentially located in layers II and IIIa. The results suggest that the supragranular layers, especially layer II, change qualitatively in functional organization in slices showing spontaneous discharges. We think that this special feature represents the function of the upper layers and can be blocked by bicuculline. This interpretation is supported by the observation that ictal discharges normally started in the upper layers in spontaneous and non-spontaneous slices, except for spontaneous slices with bicuculline, where the zone initiating discharges was translocated to deeper layers.
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- R Köhling
- Institut für Physiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
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Muñoz-Hoyos A, Sánchez-Forte M, Molina-Carballo A, Escames G, Martin-Medina E, Reiter RJ, Molina-Font JA, Acuña-Castroviejo D. Melatonin's role as an anticonvulsant and neuronal protector: experimental and clinical evidence. J Child Neurol 1998; 13:501-9. [PMID: 9796757 DOI: 10.1177/088307389801301007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The pineal gland classically has been considered as a vestigial and mystic organ. In the last decades, and with the incorporation of new methodologic procedures, it could be proved that it also has physiologic actions that vary depending on the level of the phylogenetic scale. Its best-known secretion, melatonin, has been related to many different actions, such as sleep promotion, control of biologic rhythms, hormonal inhibition, and an inhibiting action on central nervous system regulation mechanisms. In animal experimentation, there are papers even accepting an anticonvulsant effect. In humans, evidence is reduced to few experiences. In addition to this clinical experience, there is other evidence that clearly relates melatonin to convulsive phenomena. This relationship must be mediated by the following mechanisms attributed to melatonin: altered brain GABAergic neurotransmission, its known interaction with benzodiazepinic brain receptors, through tryptophan metabolite activity (kynurenine, kynurenic acid), or even by its efficacy as a free-radical scavenger.
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- A Muñoz-Hoyos
- Departamento de Pediatría, Universidad de Granada, España
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Naquet R, Silva-Barrat C, Menini C. Reflex epilepsy in the Papio-papio baboon, particularly photosensitive epilepsy. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES 1995; 16:119-25. [PMID: 7642345 DOI: 10.1007/bf02229084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Papio-papio baboons may present two types of reflex paroxysmal manifestations: --Myoclonia and generalized seizures are induced by intermittent light stimulation in predisposed animals; this photosensitive epilepsy resembles that observed in some human patients; it involves mainly the cerebral cortex during myoclonia which are accompanied by EEG paroxysmal discharges, and the mesencephalic reticular formation during seizures; --Myoclonia of a different type, never accompanied by EEG paroxysmal discharged and never evolving into seizures, may occur during movement or agitation of predisposed animals; these myoclonia are considered "non-epileptic" since they do not involve the cerebral cortex but probably the lower brain stem; they resemble that observed in startle disease or in some human degenerative disorders. The paper demonstrates that these manifestations constitute two different entities with clinical and electrophysiological characteristics as well as pharmacological reactivities completely different one from the other. Their "epileptic" or "non-epileptic" nature is discussed.
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- R Naquet
- Institut Alfred Fessard, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Rektor I, Svejdová M, Silva-Barrat C, Menini C. The cholinergic system-dependent myoclonus of the baboon Papio papio is a reticular reflex myoclonus. Mov Disord 1993; 8:28-32. [PMID: 8419805 DOI: 10.1002/mds.870080105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Neurophysiological studies were performed on four Papio papio baboons presenting with nonepileptic myoclonus (a startle response resembling stimulus-sensitive jerk). Investigations of the EEG, back-averaged EEG, and somatosensory evoked potentials revealed the absence of cortical correlates preceding the jerks, and exclusion of cerebral cortex involvement. No long-latency reflexes could be recorded in these animals. The jerks were symmetric when evoked by unilateral stimulation in normal baboons as well as in a split-brain animal. Polymyographic records showed that the first muscle involved during the jerk was the trapezius; other muscles were involved with latencies increasing in both cranial and caudal directions. From these data, nonepileptic myoclonus of baboons can be classified as a reticular reflex myoclonus. The involvement of cranial nerves did not follow the layout of the nuclei in the brainstem, indicating that the jerk is most likely generated as a complete movement. The generating structure is probably under cholinergic control. Finally, the Papio papio baboon, which was already known as a model for cortical myoclonus elicited by intermittent photic stimulation in predisposed animals, can also be considered a model for the study of the reticular reflex myoclonus.
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- I Rektor
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, C.N.R.S. Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Brailowsky S, Kunimoto M, Silva-Barrat C, Menini C, Naquet R. Electroencephalographic study of the GABA-withdrawal syndrome in rats. Epilepsia 1990; 31:369-77. [PMID: 2369874 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1990.tb05490.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The spatial and temporal EEG features of the epileptogenic syndrome induced by cessation of chronic intracortical GABA infusion in normal rats are described. In the initial stages, the paroxysmal discharges (PDs) induced by withdrawal from unilateral GABA application may appear either unilaterally or bilaterally, although with greater amplitude on the infused side. PDs are transitorily accompanied by behavioral signs of distal myoclonus of the body territory corresponding to the infused area (contralateral hindlimb). Later, the paroxysmal activity becomes more localized, circumscribed to the cannula-infused site and with ipsilateral propagation to anterior cortical areas. The amplitude of PDs decreases progressively while their frequency increases, reaching its maximal value at about 4 h after the first PDs have appeared. In the final stages of the syndrome, which may last several days, clinical manifestations are absent and PDs are activated by slow-wave sleep and reduced during REM sleep and waking. Chronic intracortical applications of taurine failed to induce any electroclinical changes on withdrawal and were unable to inhibit the focus elicited by GABA withdrawal, whereas reinstatement of GABA infusion into the epileptogenic area was effective in blocking the paroxysmal activity. Intracortical infusion of baclofen induced the appearance of an epileptogenic focus that waned on withdrawal. The GABA-withdrawal syndrome appears to be a new model of focal status epilepticus; it may be useful as an experimental model of human partial epilepsy to investigate the role of GABAergic neurotransmission.
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- S Brailowsky
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, C.N.R.S. Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Ricci GB, Chapman RM, Erné SN, Narici L, Peresson M, Pizzella V, Romani GL, Torrioli G, Cilli M. Neuromagnetic topography of photoconvulsive response in man. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1990; 75:1-12. [PMID: 1688764 DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(90)90147-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The neuromagnetic method was applied to the study of photoconvulsive responses. The identification of specific magnetic field distributions over the scalp was achieved by; (a) a stimulation paradigm consisting of series of trains of flicker stimuli randomly presented to the epileptic patient, after eye closure, to get epileptic responses while avoiding seizures; (b) a novel procedure for data analysis, to select consistent responses. These patterns, when sufficiently stable in time and dipolar in shape, were used for source localization in the usual biomagnetic framework of the equivalent current dipole source representation. The results of this approach suggest that different specific cortical areas are repeatedly and randomly activated, involving mainly the frontal, occipital and temporal areas, often with a hemispheric prevalence.
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- G B Ricci
- Istituto di Elettronica dello Stato Solido, C.N.R., Rome, Italy
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Fukuda H, Valin A, Menini C, Boscher C, de la Sayette V, Riche D, Kunimoto M, Wada JA, Naquet R. Effect of macular and peripheral retina coagulation on photosensitive epilepsy in the forebrain bisected baboon, Papio papio. Epilepsia 1989; 30:623-30. [PMID: 2507308 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1989.tb05483.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effects of macular and peripheral retina coagulation were examined in photosensitive baboons, Papio papio (PP), with or without forebrain bisection. The temporal part of the macula and surrounding retina of the left eye were coagulated with an Argon laser and later confirmed histologically. In forebrain nonbisected baboons, intermittent light stimulation of the operated eye produced bisymmetrical and bisynchronous spikes and waves and self-sustained seizures. In forebrain-bisected baboons intermittent light stimulation of the operated eye produced spikes and waves and self-sustained seizures localized to the contralateral hemisphere. Subsequent stimulation of the nonoperated eye in the same animal produced spikes and waves and seizures either bilaterally or only in the opposite hemisphere when stimulation took place during the postictal silent period in the first hemisphere. In both cases, the tonic phase of the seizure was always bilateral but asymmetrical as shown by electromyographic recordings. Based on these data, it has been hypothesized that the tonic phase is mediated, in part, through crossed interreticular pathways, by one or both cerebral hemispheres. However, data are also compatible with a possible origin of the tonic phase of the seizure being partly localized in the medial frontal cortex. Results demonstrated (1) the usefulness of laser coagulation of the temporal portion of the macula and retina for the study of the functional independence between two cerebral hemispheres, (2) the critical role of the corpus callosum (CC) in bisynchronization and generalization of the intermittent light stimulation (ILS)-induced seizure, (3) independent excitability of each cerebral hemisphere by the ILS, and (4) the critical role of cortical visual afferents for inducing epileptic phenomena in this species.
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- H Fukuda
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Bettendorff L, Schoffeniels E, Naquet R, Silva-Barrat C, Riche D, Ménini C. Phosphorylated thiamine derivatives and cortical activity in the baboon Papio papio: effect of intermittent light stimulation. J Neurochem 1989; 53:80-7. [PMID: 2723664 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1989.tb07297.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The effect of intermittent light stimulation (ILS) on the distribution of thiamine derivatives in three brain areas (occipital, motor, and premotor) was compared in photosensitive and nonphotosensitive baboons. ILS induces paroxysmal discharges in the motor and premotor areas of photosensitive animals only. In baboons submitted to ILS, thiamine triphosphate (TTP) decreases in both photosensitive and nonphotosensitive animals; thiamine monophosphate (TMP) increases in photosensitive animals, which present ILS-induced paroxysmal discharges, whereas it is unaffected in nonphotosensitive animals. The variations are the most significant in the occipital (visual) cortex. A consumption of TTP may result from electrical activity induced by light stimulation in the occipital area. No correlation between ILS-induced paroxysmal activity and a decrease in TTP contents was found. However, photosensitive animals are affected differently from nonphotosensitive animals, as their content of TMP in the cerebral cortex increases on stimulation. However, as long as the exact role of thiamine compounds in relation to membrane excitability in the nervous system remains unknown, it is impossible to conclude whether the differences observed in the metabolism of thiamine compounds are the cause or the consequence of the photosensitivity in the baboon Papio papio.
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- L Bettendorff
- Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry, University of Liège, Belgium
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Brailowsky S, Silva-Barrat C, Ménini C, Riche D, Naquet R. Effects of localized, chronic GABA infusions into different cortical areas of the photosensitive baboon, Papio papio. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1989; 72:147-56. [PMID: 2464486 DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(89)90176-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effects of chronic (7 days) intracortical GABA infusions were investigated in both naturally photosensitive and non-photosensitive baboons. Bilateral and unilateral infusions into motor and occipital regions blocked photosensitivity, while premotor and prefrontal cortex infusions had no effect on the electro-clinical manifestations of this type of reflex epilepsy; the monkeys with prefrontal GABA infusions, however, showed selective attention deficits, detected with the delayed response test. In all cases a GABA withdrawal syndrome, appearing as epileptogenic spontaneous activity localized to the infused sites, was found at the cessation of GABA application. We conclude that GABAergic systems localized at discrete cortical areas play an important role in photosensitivity and in the modulation of cognitive processes in the monkey.
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- S Brailowsky
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Silva-Barrat C, Brailowsky S, Riche D, Menini C. Anticonvulsant effects of localized chronic infusions of GABA in cortical and reticular structures of baboons. Exp Neurol 1988; 101:418-27. [PMID: 3416984 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4886(88)90053-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We studied the effects of chronic (7 day) infusions of GABA (100 and 20 micrograms/microliter, 10 microliter/h) applied in different cerebral structures of baboons made photosensitive by a subconvulsant dose of allylglycine. The GABA infusion has partial anticonvulsant effects when applied to the motor cortex, reticular magnocellular nucleus (RMC), or substantia nigra (SN), but when directed to the prefrontal cortex (area 8) it has no effect. These anticonvulsant effects of GABA infusion are more important when GABA is infused into the motor cortex, where paroxysmal discharges (PDs) originate, than when it is infused into the RMC. In contrast, the anticonvulsant effects on light-induced generalized seizures are more pronounced when GABA is infused into the RMC than when it is infused into the motor cortex. GABA infusion into the SN has no effect on PDs and myoclonia and blocks seizures less effectively than the RMC infusion. These results are in accordance with the role of the motor cortex as a generator of PDs and of RMC in the generalization of seizures. Focal paroxysmal EEG and clinical activities, previously reported to appear at the end of the motor cortex GABA infusion, were not observed after RMC or SN infusions. However, behavioral hyperactivity occurring at the end of subcortical GABA infusions was observed. These behavioral signs could correspond to the clinical expression of a GABA withdrawal syndrome.
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- C Silva-Barrat
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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