Somatosensory Crossmodal Plasticity in Superior Colliculus of Visually Deafferented Rats
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Terminal fields of a certain pathway result denervated if the regeneration after the lesion of the pathway fails. If the lesion happened in a young animal, terminal fields of other nervous pathways that are spatially coincident or are close to the denervated field, growth of axon collaterals or reactive synaptogenesis could take place and reinervate deafferented neurons. In that way these denervated neurons can be recruited for functional compensatory responses and can convey information to areas that result enriched with additional inputs to be processed. The present paper reviews the plastic reactions that take place in the superior colliculus, a mesencephalic layered structure, after the neonatal suppression of its visual afferents that terminate in its superficial layers. The postlesional reactive ascending growth of somatosensory afferents that in control animals innervate intermediate and deep collicular layers invade the superficial layers and connect with visually deafferented cells that result recruited for descendent collicular responses and to send sensory information to the visual cortex via the colliculo-geniculate payhway. In that way in neonatally deafferented animals, somatosensory information gains additional territory to be processed. Two somatosensory connections to the superior collicuus will be discussed in this review. One ascending from the cuneitorm nucleus and the other descending that originates in the barrel cortex.
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MILLAN, Luis Martinez; CHARAVEN, Juan Carlos.
Somatosensory Crossmodal Plasticity in Superior Colliculus of Visually Deafferented Rats.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 5, may 2021.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2432>. Date accessed: 07 nov. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v9i5.2432.
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3. B.E. Stein, M.A. Meredith, The Merging of the Senses, A Bradford Book, Cambridge, MA, 1993, 211 pp.
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5. Huerta MF, Harting JK. Connectional organization of the superior colliculus. Trends Neurosci 1984a 7:296-289.
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8. Rhoades RW. Effects of neonatal enucleation on the functional organization of the superior colliculus in the golden hamster. J Physiol 1980. 301:383–399.
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10. Lund RD, Lund JS. Reorganization of the retinotectal pathway in rats after neonatal retinal lesions. Exp Neurol 1973 40:377–390.
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14. García del Caño G, Gerrikagoitia I, Goñi O, Martínez-Millán L. Sprouting of the visual corticocollicular terminal field after removal of contralateral retinal inputs in neonatal rabbits. Exp Brain Res 1997. 117: 399–410.
15. García del Caño G, Gerrikagoitia I, Martínez-Millán L. Plastic response of the retrospleniocollicular connection after removal of retinal inputs in neonatal rats. Exp Brain Res 2001. 138:343–351.
16. García del Caño G, Gerrikagoitia I, Martínez-Millán L. Plastic reaction of the rat visual corticocollicular connection after contralateral retinal deafferentiation at the neonatal or adult stage: axonal growth vs. reactive synaptogenesis. J Comp Neurol 2002 446:166–178.
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24. Steiner H, Gerfen CR Tactile sensory input regulates basal and apomorphine-induced immediate-early gene expression in rat barrel cortex. J Comp Neurol 1994 344:297–304.
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27. Staiger JF, Masanneck C, Bisler S et al Excitatory and inhibitory neurons express c-Fos in barrel-related columns after exploration of a novel environment. Neuroscience 2002 109:687–699.
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32. Ozen G, Augustine GJ, Hall WC Contribution of superficial layer neurons to premotor bursts in the superior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 2000 84:460–471.
33. Helms MC, Ozen G, Hall WC Organization of the intermediate gray layer of the superior colliculus. I. Intrinsic vertical connections. J Neurophysiol 2004 91:1706–1715.
34. Perry VH A tectocortical visual pathway in the rat. Neuroscience 1980 5:915–927.
35. Harting JK, Huerta MF, Hashikawa T, van Lieshout DP Projection of the mammlian superior colliculus upon the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus: organization of tectogeniculate pathways in nineteen species. J Comp Neurol 1991 304:275–306.
36. Mundiñano IC and Martinez-Millan L Somatosensory cross-modal plasticity in the superior colliculus of the visually deafferented rats. Neuroscience 2010 165:1457-1470.
37. Toldi J, Rojik I, Feher O Neonatal monocular enucleationinduced cross-modal effects observed in the cortex of adult rat. Neuroscience 1994 62:105–114.
38. Volgyi B, Farkas T, Toldi J Compensation of a sensory deficit inflicted upon newborn and adult animals. A behavioural study. Neuroreport 1993 4:827–829.