Exploring vocal recovery after cranial nerve injury in Bengalese finches.

Autor: Urbano CM; Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129, United States. c.m.urbano@tcu.edu, Peterson JR, Cooper BG
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neuroscience letters [Neurosci Lett] 2013 Feb 08; Vol. 534, pp. 112-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Dec 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.12.016
Abstrakt: Songbirds and humans use auditory feedback to acquire and maintain their vocalizations. The Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica) is a songbird species that rapidly modifies its vocal output to adhere to an internal song memory. In this species, the left side of the bipartite vocal organ is specialized for producing louder, higher frequencies (≥2.2kHz) and denervation of the left vocal muscles eliminates these notes. Thus, the return of higher frequency notes after cranial nerve injury can be used as a measure of vocal recovery. Either the left or right side of the syrinx was denervated by resection of the tracheosyringeal portion of the hypoglossal nerve. Histologic analyses of syringeal muscle tissue showed significant muscle atrophy in the denervated side. After left nerve resection, songs were mainly composed of lower frequency syllables, but three out of five birds recovered higher frequency syllables. Right nerve resection minimally affected phonology, but it did change song syntax; syllable sequence became abnormally stereotyped after right nerve resection. Therefore, damage to the neuromuscular control of sound production resulted in reduced motor variability, and Bengalese finches are a potential model for functional vocal recovery following cranial nerve injury.
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