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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-1-28
pubmed:abstractText
Extracellular unit responses were recorded from the vestibular nucleus (VN) and medial longitudinal fasciculus during horizontal head rotation of an in vitro turtle brainstem in which the temporal bones remained attached. Units were characterized as type I or type II based on the responses to ipsiversive or contraversive rotation, respectively. Lidocaine injections (0.5-2 microl of 0.5%) into the root of the eighth cranial nerve within the cranium caused rapid effects on unit responses to head rotation. Responses of type I units were reduced by ipsilateral injection but enhanced following contralateral injection. On the other hand, type II units had their responses increased by ipsilateral injections yet decreased by contralateral injections. In approximately half of the type II cells, decrease of the contraversive response was accompanied by the appearance of latent ipsiversive activity. Our findings not only confirm that each eighth nerve has afferents that drive ipsiversive excitation of both vestibular nuclei but also suggest that both nerves compete to dominate a central neuron's vestibular response. These results may be inconsistent with the push-pull vestibular model in which each nerve drives the central neuron with a complementary response that enhances the vestibular output. An alternate model is described in which vestibular neurons receive bilateral excitation, and that excitatory input is antagonized by crossed inhibition during contraversive motion.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
999
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
106-17
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Action Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Brain Stem, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Dissection, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Efferent Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Functional Laterality, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Gravity Sensing, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Lidocaine, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Models, Neurological, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Neural Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Organ Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Postural Balance, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Rotation, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Synaptic Transmission, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Turtles, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Vestibular Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Vestibular Nuclei, pubmed-meshheading:14746927-Vestibule, Labyrinth
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Bilateral processing of vestibular responses revealed by injecting lidocaine into the eighth cranial nerve in vitro.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 1402 S. Grand Boulevard, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63104-1004, USA. arielm@slu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.