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Grimm K, Prilop L, Schön G, Gelderblom M, Misselhorn J, Gerloff C, Zittel S. Cerebellar Modulation of Sensorimotor Associative Plasticity Is Impaired in Cervical Dystonia. Mov Disord 2023; 38:2084-2093. [PMID: 37641392 DOI: 10.1002/mds.29586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In recent years, cervical dystonia (CD) has been recognized as a network disorder that involves not only the basal ganglia but other brain regions, such as the primary motor and somatosensory cortex, brainstem, and cerebellum. So far, the role of the cerebellum in the pathophysiology of dystonia is only poorly understood. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the role of the cerebellum on sensorimotor associative plasticity in patients with CD. METHODS Sixteen patients with CD and 13 healthy subjects received cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (ctDCS) followed by a paired associative stimulation (PAS) protocol based on transcranial magnetic stimulation that induces sensorimotor associative plasticity. Across three sessions the participants received excitatory anodal, inhibitory cathodal, and sham ctDCS in a double-blind crossover design. Before and after the intervention, motor cortical excitability and motor symptom severity were assessed. RESULTS PAS induced an increase in motor cortical excitability in both healthy control subjects and patients with CD. In healthy subjects this effect was attenuated by both anodal and cathodal ctDCS with a stronger effect of cathodal stimulation. In patients with CD, anodal stimulation suppressed the PAS effect, whereas cathodal stimulation had no influence on PAS. Motor symptom severity was unchanged after the intervention. CONCLUSIONS Cerebellar modulation with cathodal ctDCS had no effect on sensorimotor associative plasticity in patients with CD, in contrast with the net inhibitory effect in healthy subjects. This is further evidence that the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network plays a role in the pathophysiology of dystonia. © 2023 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Kai Grimm
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Zhang Y, Luo Y, Sasamura K, Sugihara I. Single axonal morphology reveals high heterogeneity in spinocerebellar axons originating from the lumbar spinal cord in the mouse. J Comp Neurol 2021; 529:3893-3921. [PMID: 34333770 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Among the spinocerebellar projections vital for sensorimotor coordination of limbs and the trunk, the morphology of spinocerebellar axons originating from the lumbar cord has not been well characterized compared to those from thoracic and sacral cords. We reconstructed 26 single spinocerebellar axons labeled by biotinylated dextran injections into the gray matter of the lumbar spinal cord in mice. Axon terminals were mapped with the zebrin pattern of the cerebellar cortex. Reconstructed axons were primarily classified into ipsilaterally and contralaterally ascending axons, arising mainly from the dorsal and ventral horns, respectively. The majority of ipsilateral and contralateral axons took the dorsal-medullary and ventral-pontine pathways, respectively. The axons of both groups terminated mainly in the vermal and medial paravermal areas of lobules II-V and VIII-IXa, often bilaterally but predominantly ipsilateral to the axonal origin, with a weak preference to particular portions of zebrin stripes. The ipsilateral axons originating from the medial dorsal horn in the upper lumbar cord (n = 3) had abundant (43-147) mossy fiber terminals and no medullary collaterals. The ipsilateral axons originating from the lateral dorsal horn in the lower lumbar cord (n = 9) and the contralateral axons (n = 14) showed remarkable morphology variations. The number of their mossy fiber terminals varied from 2 to 172. Their collaterals, observed in 17 axons out of 23, terminated mainly in the medial cerebellar nucleus, nucleus X, and lateral reticular nucleus in various degrees. The results indicated that the lumbar spinocerebellar projection contains highly heterogeneous axonal populations regarding their pathway, branching, and termination patterns.
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- Yongquan Zhang
- Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Brain Integration Research, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Matsushita M. Projections from the lowest thoracic and upper lumbar segments to the cerebellar cortex in the rat: An anterograde tracing study. Neurosci Res 2020; 170:166-180. [PMID: 32668275 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2020.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The projections from the lowest thoracic and upper lumbar (T13 to L3) segments to the cerebellar cortex were examined by anterograde tracing with biotinylated dextran amine in the rat. Unilateral injections resulted in bilateral labeling of mossy fiber terminals in lobules Ib to VI, VIII, IX and copula pyramidis. The majority (64 % of the total 30,526 labeled terminals) were present ipsilaterally in lobules II (8.5 %), III (20 %), IV (11 %), V (12 %), VIII (4.1 %), and copula pyramidis (6.8 %). The projection field in the anterior lobe was composed of five longitudinal areas: area 1 in the midline region, areas 2 and 3 in the middle and lateral parts of the vermis, and areas 4 and 5 in the medial part of the intermediate region of the hemisphere. The projection areas are characteristically localized in the apical to the middle part of the lobule. In the posterior lobe, the longitudinal areas were present in the midline region, the middle and lateral parts of lobules VIIIa and VIIIb, and the medial and middle parts of copula pyramidis. The present study reveals the whole areas and the pattern of projections from the segments containing the cells of origin of the dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tracts.
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- Matsuo Matsushita
- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
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Dubbioso R, Pellegrino G, Antenora A, De Michele G, Filla A, Santoro L, Manganelli F. The Effect of Cerebellar Degeneration on Human Sensori-motor Plasticity. Brain Stimul 2015; 8:1144-50. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2015] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 05/30/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Spanne A, Jörntell H. Processing of multi-dimensional sensorimotor information in the spinal and cerebellar neuronal circuitry: a new hypothesis. PLoS Comput Biol 2013; 9:e1002979. [PMID: 23516353 PMCID: PMC3597523 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2012] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Why are sensory signals and motor command signals combined in the neurons of origin of the spinocerebellar pathways and why are the granule cells that receive this input thresholded with respect to their spike output? In this paper, we synthesize a number of findings into a new hypothesis for how the spinocerebellar systems and the cerebellar cortex can interact to support coordination of our multi-segmented limbs and bodies. A central idea is that recombination of the signals available to the spinocerebellar neurons can be used to approximate a wide array of functions including the spatial and temporal dependencies between limb segments, i.e. information that is necessary in order to achieve coordination. We find that random recombination of sensory and motor signals is not a good strategy since, surprisingly, the number of granule cells severely limits the number of recombinations that can be represented within the cerebellum. Instead, we propose that the spinal circuitry provides useful recombinations, which can be described as linear projections through aspects of the multi-dimensional sensorimotor input space. Granule cells, potentially with the aid of differentiated thresholding from Golgi cells, enhance the utility of these projections by allowing the Purkinje cell to establish piecewise-linear approximations of non-linear functions. Our hypothesis provides a novel view on the function of the spinal circuitry and cerebellar granule layer, illustrating how the coordinating functions of the cerebellum can be crucially supported by the recombinations performed by the neurons of the spinocerebellar systems.
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- Anton Spanne
- Neural basis for Sensorimotor Control, BMC F10, Lund University, SE-22184 Lund, Sweden
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- Neural basis for Sensorimotor Control, BMC F10, Lund University, SE-22184 Lund, Sweden
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Popa T, Velayudhan B, Hubsch C, Pradeep S, Roze E, Vidailhet M, Meunier S, Kishore A. Cerebellar processing of sensory inputs primes motor cortex plasticity. Cereb Cortex 2012; 23:305-14. [PMID: 22351647 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Plasticity of the human primary motor cortex (M1) has a critical role in motor control and learning. The cerebellum facilitates these functions using sensory feedback. We investigated whether cerebellar processing of sensory afferent information influences the plasticity of the primary motor cortex (M1). Theta-burst stimulation protocols (TBS), both excitatory and inhibitory, were used to modulate the excitability of the posterior cerebellar cortex and to condition an ongoing M1 plasticity. M1 plasticity was subsequently induced in 2 different ways: by paired associative stimulation (PAS) involving sensory processing and TBS that exclusively involves intracortical circuits of M1. Cerebellar excitation attenuated the PAS-induced M1 plasticity, whereas cerebellar inhibition enhanced and prolonged it. Furthermore, cerebellar inhibition abolished the topography-specific response of PAS-induced M1 plasticity, with the effects spreading to adjacent motor maps. Conversely, cerebellar excitation had no effect on the TBS-induced M1 plasticity. This demonstrates the key role of the cerebellum in priming M1 plasticity, and we propose that it is likely to occur at the thalamic or olivo-dentate nuclear level by influencing the sensory processing. We suggest that such a cerebellar priming of M1 plasticity could shape the impending motor command by favoring or inhibiting the recruitment of several muscle representations.
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- T Popa
- Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche-CENIR, 75013 Paris, France.
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The longitudinal and transverse zonal arrangement of axonal projections to and from the cerebellum, even more than the well-known laminar cytoarchitecture, is the hallmark of cerebellar anatomy. No model of cerebellar function, whether in motor control, cognition, or emotion, will be complete without understanding the development and function of zones. To this end, a special issue of this journal is dedicated to zones, and the purpose of this article is to summarize the research and review articles that are contained within. The special issue begins by considering some of the very first studies in the 1960s and 1970s that led to our modern understanding of this unique and defining anatomical substructure. Then, it considers the molecular analogs of longitudinal zones in the form of stripes in the cerebellar cortex and related sub-areas in the deep cerebellar nuclei, and it includes studies on the genetic underpinnings of stripes and zones. Several articles address the evolution of both embryonic clusters and adult zones across vertebrate species, and others discuss the functional and clinical relevance of zones. While we do not yet fully understand the role of zones with respect to motor behavior in all of its complexities, cerebellar function is clearly modular, and combinatorial models of complex motor movements based on multi-purpose modules are beginning to emerge. This special issue, by refocusing attention on this fundamental organization of the cerebellum, sets the stage for future studies that will more fully reveal the cellular, developmental, behavioral, and clinical relevance of zones.
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- John Oberdick
- Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Gebre SA, Reeber SL, Sillitoe RV. Parasagittal compartmentation of cerebellar mossy fibers as revealed by the patterned expression of vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 and VGLUT2. Brain Struct Funct 2012; 217:165-80. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-011-0339-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2011] [Accepted: 07/20/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Quy PN, Fujita H, Sakamoto Y, Na J, Sugihara I. Projection patterns of single mossy fiber axons originating from the dorsal column nuclei mapped on the aldolase C compartments in the rat cerebellar cortex. J Comp Neurol 2011; 519:874-99. [PMID: 21280042 DOI: 10.1002/cne.22555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Although cerebellar mossy fibers are the most abundant cerebellar afferents and are deeply involved in cerebellar function, the organization of their projection has remained obscure, particularly in relation to cerebellar compartmentalization. The dorsal column nuclei (DCN) are a major source of cerebellar mossy fibers and possess distinct somatotopic representations of specific somatosensory submodalities. We reconstructed individual dextran-labeled DCN axons completely from serial sections and mapped their terminals on the longitudinal cerebellar compartments that were visualized by aldolase C immunostaining to clarify their projection pattern. Individual axons branched and formed about 100 rosette terminals in the cerebellar cortex, but infrequently projected to the cerebellar nuclei (1 out of 15 axons). Cortical terminals were clustered in multiple areas in the vermis and pars intermedia mostly, but not exclusively, ipsilateral to the origin of the axon. The gracile, cuneate, and external cuneate nuclei (ECuN) mainly projected to the copula pyramidis and lobule V, paramedian and simple lobules, and lobules I-V and VIII-IX, respectively, although there was some overlap. The majority of terminals were located within aldolase C negative or lightly positive compartments. However, terminals of a single axon can be located on aldolase C-negative as well as on aldolase C-positive compartments. In particular, the rostral ECuN, which is responsive to shoulder movements, projected consistently to lobule IX, which were mostly aldolase C-positive. In sum, DCN-cerebellar axons project to multiple compartments with terminals clustered mainly in the conventional spinocerebellar region with a coarse topography, which shows some relationship to the cortical compartments defined by aldolase C.
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- Pham Nguyen Quy
- Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan
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Ariel M, Brown ME. Origin and timing of voltage-sensitive dye signals within layers of the turtle cerebellar cortex. Brain Res 2010; 1357:26-40. [PMID: 20707989 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2010] [Revised: 08/04/2010] [Accepted: 08/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Optical recording techniques were applied to the turtle cerebellum to localize synchronous responses to microstimulation of its cortical layers and reveal the cerebellum's three-dimensional processing. The in vitro yet intact cerebellum was first immersed in voltage-sensitive dye and its responses while intact were compared to those measured in thick cerebellar slices. Each slice is stained throughout its depth, even though the pial half appeared darker during epi-illumination and lighter during trans-illumination. Optical responses were shown to be mediated by the voltage-sensitive dye because the evoked signals had opposite polarity for 540- and 710-nm light, but no response to 850-nm light. Molecular layer stimulation of the intact cerebellum evoked slow transverse beams. Similar beams were observed in the molecular layer of thick transverse slices but not sagittal slices. With low currents, beams in transverse slices were restricted to sublayers within the molecular layer, conducting slowly away from the stimulus site. These excitatory beams were observed nearly all the way across the turtle cerebellum, distances of 4-6mm. Microstimulation of the granule cell layer of both transverse or sagittal slices evoked a local membrane depolarization restricted to a radial wedge, but these radial responses did not activate measurable molecular layer beams in transverse slices. White matter microstimulation in sagittal slices (near the ventricular surface of the turtle cerebellum) activated the granule cell and Purkinje cell layers, but not the molecular layer. These responses were nearly synchronous, were primarily caudal to the stimulation, and were blocked by cobalt ions. Therefore, synaptic responses in all cerebellar layers contribute to optical signals recorded in intact cerebellum in vitro (Brown and Ariel, 2009). Rapid radial signaling connects a sagittally-oriented, fast-conduction system of the deep layers with the transverse-oriented, slow-conducting molecular layer, thereby permitting complex temporal processing between two tangential but orthogonal paths in the cerebellar cortex.
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- Michael Ariel
- Department of Pharmacological & Physiological Science, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA.
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Pijpers A, Apps R, Pardoe J, Voogd J, Ruigrok TJH. Precise spatial relationships between mossy fibers and climbing fibers in rat cerebellar cortical zones. J Neurosci 2006; 26:12067-80. [PMID: 17108180 PMCID: PMC6674858 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2905-06.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Classically, mossy fiber and climbing fiber terminals are regarded as having very different spatial distributions in the cerebellar cortex. However, previous anatomical studies have not studied these two major cerebellar inputs with sufficient resolution to confirm this assumption. Here, we examine the detailed pattern of collateralization of both types of cerebellar afferent using small injections of the bidirectional tracer cholera toxin b subunit into the posterior cerebellum. The cortical and zonal location of these injections was characterized by mapping climbing fiber field potentials, the distribution of retrogradely labeled olivary neurons, and the intrinsic zebrin pattern of Purkinje cells. Labeled climbing fiber collaterals were distributed as longitudinal strips and were always accompanied by clusters of labeled mossy fiber rosettes in the subjacent granular layer. Two- and three-dimensional reconstructions and quantitative analysis showed that mossy fibers also collateralized to other stripe-like regions usually below Purkinje cells with the same zebrin-positive or zebrin-negative characteristics as that of the injection site and associated climbing fiber collaterals. The distribution of retrogradely labeled neurons in two major sources of mossy fibers, the lateral reticular and basilar pontine nuclei, revealed interlobular and some interzonal differences. These data indicate that nonadjacent cerebellar zones, sharing the same climbing fiber input and zebrin identity, also share a common mossy fiber input. Other cerebellar cortical regions that receive collaterals from the same mossy fibers usually also have the same zebrin signature. Together with the distribution of neurons in precerebellar centers, the findings suggest a revision of the modular hypothesis for information processing in the cerebellar cortex.
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- Angelique Pijpers
- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and
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- Department of Physiology, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and
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- Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and
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The turtle cerebellar cortex is a single flat sheet of gray matter that greatly facilitates quantitative analysis of biotylinated dextran amine labeled granule cell and olivocerebellar axons and Nissl-stained granule and Purkinje neurons. On average, ascending granule cell axons are relatively thicker than their parallel fiber branches (mean +/- SD: 0.84 +/- 0.17 vs 0.64 +/- 0.12 microm, respectively). Numerous en passant swellings, the site of presynaptic contact, were present on both ascending and parallel fiber granule cell axons. The swellings on ascending axons (1.82 +/- 0.34 microm, n = 52) were slightly larger than on parallel fibers (1.43 +/- 0.24 microm, n = 430). In addition, per unit length (100 microm) there were more swellings on ascending axons (11.2 +/- 4.2) than on parallel fibers (9.7 +/- 4.2). Each parallel fiber branch from an ascending axon is approximately 1.5 mm long. Olivocerebellar climbing fiber axons followed the highly tortuous dendrites of Purkinje cells in the inner most 15-20% of the molecular layer. Climbing fibers displayed relatively fewer en passant swellings. The spatial perimeter of climbing fiber arbors (area) increased 72% from anteriorly (1797 microm2) to posteriorly (3090 microm2) and 104% from medially (1690 microm2) to laterally (3450 microm2). Differences in the size and spacing of en passant swellings on granule cell axons suggest that ascending axons may have a functionally more significant impact on the excitability of a limited number of radially overlying Purkinje cells than the single contacts by parallel fiber with multiple orthogonally aligned Purkinje cell dendrites. The spatially restricted distribution of climbing fibers to the inner most molecular layer, the paucity of en passant swellings, and different terminal arbor areas are enigmatic. Nevertheless, these finding provide important anatomical information for future optical imaging and electrophysiological experiments.
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- D L Tolbert
- Francis and Doris Murphy Neuroanatomy Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University, 1402 South Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.
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Alisky JM, van de Wetering CI, Davidson BL. Widespread dispersal of cholera toxin subunit b to brain and spinal cord neurons following systemic delivery. Exp Neurol 2002; 178:139-46. [PMID: 12460616 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.8031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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We have discovered novel transport properties of cholera toxin subunit b beyond well-known anterograde and retrograde axonal transport. Injection of 1500 microg of CTb intraperitoneally or intravenously in young adult mice resulted in generalized enhanced labeling of motor nuclei at all levels of the brain stem and spinal cord (oculomotor, trochlear, abducens, facial, trigeminal, vagal, hypoglossal, cervical, and lumbar). There was also extensive labeling of trigeminal and spinal primary afferent fibers, bulk labeling of the area postrema, and finally numerous labeled neurons in the periventricular and supraoptic hypothalamic nuclei. Generalized labeling of motor, sensory, and hypothalamic neurons could also be produced on a more limited scale from intramuscular injections of 500 microg of CTb in the tongue. Neuronal uptake of peripherally administered CTb may be useful as a research tool, or, when fused to therapeutic peptides, enzymes, growth factors, or gene therapy vectors, may have application in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, motor neuronopathic lysosomal storage diseases, and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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- Joseph M Alisky
- Department of Internal Medicine, Program in Gene Therapy, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 55242, USA
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Nunzi MG, Shigemoto R, Mugnaini E. Differential expression of calretinin and metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR1alpha defines subsets of unipolar brush cells in mouse cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 2002; 451:189-99. [PMID: 12209836 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The unipolar brush cell (UBC) is a type of glutamatergic interneuron in the granular layer of the cerebellum. The UBC brush and a single mossy fiber (MF) terminal contact each other within a cerebellar glomerulus, forming a giant synapse. Many UBCs receive input from extrinsic MFs, whereas others are innervated by intrinsic mossy terminals formed by the axons of other UBCs. In all mammalian species so far examined, the vestibulocerebellum is enriched of UBCs that are strongly immunoreactive for the calcium binding protein calretinin (CR) in both the somatodendritic and axonal compartment. UBCs have postsynaptic ionotropic glutamate receptors and extrasynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors that immunocytochemically highlight their somatodendritic compartment and brush, respectively. In this study on the mouse cerebellum, we present evidence that immunoreactivities to CR and mGluR1alpha define two distinct UBC subsets with partly overlapping distributions in lobule X (the nodulus). In sections double-labeled for CR and mGluR1alpha, the patterns of distributions of CR(+)/mGluR1alpha(-) UBCs and CR(-)/mGluR1alpha(+) UBCs differed along the mediolateral and dorsoventral axes of the folium. Moreover, mGluR1alpha(+) UBCs outnumbered CR(+) UBCs. Both UBC subsets were mGluR2/3, GluR2/3, and NMDAR1 immunoreactive. The different distribution patterns of the two UBC subsets within lobule X suggest that expression of CR or mGluR1alpha by UBCs may be afferent-specific and related to the terminal fields of different vestibular MF afferents.
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- Maria-Grazia Nunzi
- Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
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Functional imaging studies of the cerebellum have mostly investigated motor performance or have been limited to the anterior lobe and therefore the somatosensory representations in the human cerebellum have not been fully demonstrated. We used fMRI of the entire cerebellum during tactile stimulation of the hand and foot in six normal subjects. Our results demonstrate that the tactile projections to the cerebellum in humans are represented in both the anterior and posterior lobes. in agreement with previous functional imaging studies, our results show a large-scale, between-limb somatotopy comparable to that shown in early animal studies.
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- K O Bushara
- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
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Peeters RR, Verhoye M, Vos BP, Van Dyck D, Van Der Linden A, De Schutter E. A patchy horizontal organization of the somatosensory activation of the rat cerebellum demonstrated by functional MRI. Eur J Neurosci 1999; 11:2720-30. [PMID: 10457168 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00687.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Blood oxygenation level dependent contrast (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) responses, in a 7-T magnet, were observed in the cerebellum of alpha-chloralose anaesthetized rats in response to innocuous electrical stimulation of a forepaw or hindpaw. The responses were imaged in both coronal and sagittal slices which allowed for a clear delineation and localization of the observed activations. We demonstrate the validity of our fMRI protocol by imaging the responses in somatosensory cortex to the same stimuli and by showing reproducibility of the cerebellar responses. Widespread bilateral activations were found with mainly a patchy and mediolateral band organization, more pronounced ipsilaterally. Possible parasagittal bands were observed only in contralateral lobule VI. There was no overlap between the cerebellar activations caused by forepaw and hindpaw stimuli. The overall horizontal organization of these responses was quite remarkable. For both stimulation paradigms most of the activation patches were positioned in either a rostral or caudal broad plane running anteroposteriorly through both anterior and posterior cerebellum. The rostral planes were completely separated, with the forepaw activation closer to the surface, while the caudal plane was common to both stimulation protocols. We relate our findings to the known projection patterns of spinocerebellar and cuneocerebellar mossy fibres, and to human fMRI studies.
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- R R Peeters
- Bio Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, RUCA, Belgium
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Abstract
The distribution of wheatgerm agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase-labelled mossy fibre terminals of internal and external cuneate projections to the cerebellar anterior and posterior lobes were quantitatively analysed in adult rats. Computer-based image analysis mapped the spatial distribution of labelled cuneocerebellar terminals in two-dimensional reconstructions of the unfolded cortex. Cuneocerebellar projections are mainly ipsilateral in their distribution. Cuneate projections to the anterior lobe vermis-medial paravermis terminate in well-circumscribed, irregularly-shaped patches. These terminal patches are aligned and form a longitudinally continuous, parasagittally oriented stripe in the lateral vermis-medial paravermis of lobules I-V. These terminal patches represent the topographically organized divergent projections of different parts of the internal and external cuneate nuclei. Cuneocerebellar projections to the lateral paravermis-hemisphere, particularly in the posterior part of lobule V, are organized as a transversely oriented band of terminals. Cuneocerebellar projections to the posterior lobe terminate mainly in three transversely oriented bands of terminals located at the junction between lobules. An anterior band of terminals was located in lobule VI anteriorly and was continuous with the band of terminals located in the posterolateral part of lobule V at the junction of these two lobules. Intermediate and posterior transversely oriented bands of terminals were located at the VII-VIII and VIII-IX junctions, respectively. Cuneocerebellar projections to these three bands largely appear to represent convergent projections from different parts of the cuneate nuclei. These findings are discussed in relation to similarly analysed and previously reported findings on the organization of lower thoracic-upper lumbar spinocerebellar projections and in the context of how cuneocerebellar somatosensory input may be differentially organized and processed in disparate areas of the cerebellar cortex.
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Affiliation(s)
- D L Tolbert
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, St Louis University School of Medicine, MO 63104, USA
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