Subdivisions of the auditory cortex of the cat: The retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase to the medial geniculate body and posterior thalamic nuclei
The Journal of Comparative NeurologyPublished 1 December 1977
Jeffery A. Winer, I.T. Diamond, Denis Raczkowski
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Each subdivision of auditory cortex was injected with horseradish peroxidase with the result that in some cases the diffusion of HRP was restricted while in other cases, HRP diffused over an entire cortical subdivision and encroached on adjacent subdivisions.
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Abstract Each subdivision of auditory cortex was injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The amount of HRP injected was varied with the result that in some cases the diffusion of HRP was restricted while in other cases, HRP diffused over an entire cortical subdivision and encroached on adjacent subdivisions. In the case of restricted diffusion only a relatively small number of thalamic cells were “labelled”; in the case of extensive diffusion many times that number of cells were labelled. Whether relatively few or many cells, the distribution of labelled cells fell into distinctive patterns. Each pattern consisted of a focus or concentration of labelled cells in one thalamic subdivision and a sparser population of labelled cells in other thalamic subdivisions. The most striking example of a pattern is produced by injecting AI. This injection resulted in a band in the ventral division of the medial geniculate body densely populated with labelled cells; but even after the smallest injection, labelled cells were also found outside the ventral division, in the magnocellular and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate body, and in the posterior group. (The ventral extremity of the ventral division was always free of cells and this sector is likely a separate nucleus which projects to E p .) Other patterns are produced by injecting HRP in other cortical subdivisions: temporal injections produced a concentration in the caudal division of the medial geniculate body; insular injections resulted in a concentration in the medial sector of the posterior group; AII injections led to a concentration in the magnocellular and deep dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate body; injections in ventral E p led to a concentration of labelled cells in the dorsal division of the medial geniculate body; finally, dorsal E p seems to be very different from the other divisions inasmuch as injections in it resulted in labelled cells in non‐auditory thalamus–the pulvinar and lateral nuclei, as well as the auditory thalamus. These results lead to the following conclusions. The laminated and principal part of the ventral division of the medial geniculate body projects only to AI. Every other thalamic subdivision projects to two or more cortical subdivisions: the caudal division projects primarily to the temporal area with sparser projections to AII and E p ; the dorsal division projects primarily to E p with sparser projections to AI, AII, and the temporal area; the medial sector of the posterior group projects primarily to the insular area and to the posterior ectosylvian gyrus; the magnocellular division of the medial geniculate body projects to every subdivision of auditory cortex, including AI and AII.
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