Oculomotor Areas of the Primate Frontal Lobes: A Transneuronal Transfer of Rabies Virus and [14C]-2-Deoxyglucose Functional Imaging Study

Autor: W. Graf, Kostas Hadjidimitrakis, M. Doldan, Adonis K. Moschovakis, Gabriella Ugolini, Georgia G. Gregoriou, W. Guldin, Helen E. Savaki
Přispěvatelé: Moschovakis A.K., Gregoriou G.G., Ugolini G., Doldan M., Graf W., Guldin W., Hadjidimitrakis K., Savaki H.E., Department of Basic Sciences, University of Crete [Heraklion] (UOC)-Faculty of Medicine, Laboratoire de neurobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire (NBCM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard (INAF), Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action (LPPA), Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Psychology, University of Landau
Rok vydání: 2004
Předmět:
Cingulate cortex
Supplementary eye field
genetic structures
[SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology
MESH: Frontal Lobe
0302 clinical medicine
Cortex (anatomy)
Neural Pathways
MESH: Animals
Motor Neurons
0303 health sciences
General Neuroscience
Anatomy
MESH: Rabies virus
Frontal Lobe
MESH: Oculomotor Muscles
medicine.anatomical_structure
Frontal lobe
Saccade
MESH: Saccades
[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]
Female
Psychology
Frontal eye field
MESH: Motor Neurons
Oculomotor
Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive
Fixation
Ocular

Deoxyglucose
Motor Neuron
MESH: Macaca mulatta
Premotor cortex
Neural Pathway
03 medical and health sciences
Saccades
medicine
Animals
MESH: Fixation
Ocular

Macaca fasciculari
030304 developmental biology
Animal
principal sulcus
MESH: Neural Pathways
Lateral rectus muscle
Eye movement
MESH: Deoxyglucose
Macaca mulatta
Macaca fascicularis
Oculomotor Muscle
MESH: Macaca fascicularis
Cingulate eye field
Principal sulcu
cingulate eye fields
Oculomotor Muscles
Rabies virus
Orbitofrontal cortex
MESH: Female
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Journal of Neuroscience
Journal of Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2004, 24 (25), pp.5726-5740. ⟨10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1223-04.2004⟩
ISSN: 1529-2401
0270-6474
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1223-04.2004
Popis: We used the [14C]-2-deoxyglucose method to study the location and extent of primate frontal lobe areas activated for saccades and fixation and the retrograde transneuronal transfer of rabies virus to determine whether these regions are oligosynaptically connected with extraocular motoneurons. Fixation-related increases of local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) values were found around the fundus of the inferior limb of the arcuate sulcus (AS) just ventral to its genu, in the dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC), cingulate cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex. Significant increases of LCGU values were found in and around both banks of the AS, DMFC, and caudal principal, cingulate, and orbitofrontal cortices of monkeys executing visually guided saccades. All of these areas are oligosynaptically connected to extraocular motoneurons, as shown by the presence of retrogradely transneuronally labeled cells after injection of rabies virus in the lateral rectus muscle. Our data demonstrate that the arcuate oculomotor cortex occupies a region considerably larger than the classic, electrical stimulation-defined, frontal eye field. Besides a large part of the anterior bank of the AS, it includes the caudal prearcuate convexity and part of the premotor cortex in the posterior bank of the AS. They also demonstrate that the oculomotor DMFC occupies a small area straddling the ridge of the brain medial to the superior ramus of the AS. Our results support the notion that a network of several interconnected frontal lobe regions is activated during rapid, visually guided eye movements and that their output is conveyed in parallel to subcortical structures projecting to extraocular motoneurons.
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