Basal ganglia thalamus and the "crowning enigma"

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作者
Garcia-Munoz, Marianela [1 ]
Arbuthnott, Gordon W. [1 ]
机构
[1] Grad Univ, Okinawa Inst Sci & Technol, Okinawa, Japan
来源
FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS | 2015年 / 9卷
关键词
ventromedial; ventrolateral; ventral anterior; midline-intralaminar; basal ganglia; motor cortex; MOUSE MOTOR CORTEX; MEDIAN-PARAFASCICULAR COMPLEX; RETROGRADE AXONAL-TRANSPORT; DEEP BRAIN-STIMULATION; SOMATIC SENSORY CORTEX; CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM; CAJAL-RETZIUS NEURONS; LAYER I NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL NEURONS; EFFERENT CONNECTIONS;
D O I
10.3389/fncir.2015.00071
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
When Hubei (1982) referred to layer 1 of primary visual cortex as "... a 'crowning mystery' to keep area 17 physiologists busy for years to come..." he could have been talking about any cortical area. In the 80's and 90's there were no methods to examine this neuropile on the surface of the cortex: a tangled web of axons and dendrites from a variety of different places with unknown specificities and doubtful connections to the cortical output neurons some hundreds of microns below. Recently, three changes have made the crowning enigma less of an impossible mission: the clear presence of neurons in layer 1 (L1), the active conduction of voltage along apical dendrites and optogenetic methods that might allow us to look at one source of input at a time. For all of those reasons alone, it seems it is time to take seriously the function of L1. The functional properties of this layer will need to wait for more experiments but already L1 cells are GAD67 positive, i.e., inhibitory! They could reverse the sign of the thalamic glutamate (GLU) input for the entire cortex. It is at least possible that in the near future normal activity of individual sources of L1 could be detected using genetic tools. We are at the outset of important times in the exploration of thalamic functions and perhaps the solution to the crowning enigma is within sight. Our review looks forward to that solution from the solid basis of the anatomy of the basal ganglia output to motor thalamus. We will focus on L1, its afferents, intrinsic neurons and its influence on responses of pyramidal neurons in layers 2/3 and 5. Since Li is present in the whole cortex we will provide a general overview considering evidence mainly from the somatosensory (Si) cortex before focusing on motor cortex.
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