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Cortical, subcortical, and peripheral sensory nerve potentials were studied in cats to determine comparative thresholds of response. Stimuli capable of eliciting responses in peripheral nerve also invariably elicited responses from thalamus and cortex. Together with relevant data from human studies, the results indicate that stimuli subthreshold for perception do not affect the nervous system. They also have implications for studies of "subliminal" perception. 相似文献
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The subplate forms a transient circuit required for development of connections between the thalamus and the cerebral cortex. When subplate neurons are ablated, ocular dominance columns do not form in the visual cortex despite the robust presence of thalamic axons in layer 4. We show that subplate ablation also prevents formation of orientation columns. Visual responses are weak and poorly tuned to orientation. Furthermore, thalamocortical synaptic transmission fails to strengthen, whereas intracortical synapses are unaffected. Thus, subplate circuits are essential not only for the anatomical segregation of thalamic inputs but also for key steps in synaptic remodeling and maturation needed to establish the functional architecture of visual cortex. 相似文献
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Long-term potentiation in the motor cortex 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a model for learning and memory processes. Tetanic stimulation of the sensory cortex produces LTP in motor cortical neurons, whereas tetanization of the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus, which also projects to the motor cortex, does not. However, after simultaneous high-frequency stimulation of both the sensory cortex and the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus, LTP of thalamic input to motor cortical neurons is induced. This associative LTP occurs only in neurons in the superficial layers of the motor cortex that receive monosynaptic input from both the sensory cortex and the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus. Associative LTP in the motor cortex may constitute a basis for the retention of motor skills. 相似文献
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In awake monkeys we recorded activity of single "motor" cortex cells, four contralateral arm muscles, and elbow position, while operantly reinforcing several patterns of motor activity. With the monkey's arm held semiprone in a cast hinged at the elbow, we reinforced active elbow movements and tested cell responses to passive elbow movements. With the cast immobilized we reinforced isometric contraction of each of the four muscles in isolation, and bursts of cortical cell activity with and without simultaneous suppression of muscle activity. Correlations between a precentral cell and specific arm muscles consistently appeared under several behavioral conditions, but could be dissociated by reinforcing cell activity and muscle suppression. 相似文献
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The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the related medial wall play a critical role in recruiting cognitive control. Although ACC exhibits selective error and conflict responses, it has been unclear how these develop and become context-specific. With use of a modified stop-signal task, we show from integrated computational neural modeling and neuroimaging studies that ACC learns to predict error likelihood in a given context, even for trials in which there is no error or response conflict. These results support a more general error-likelihood theory of ACC function based on reinforcement learning, of which conflict and error detection are special cases. 相似文献
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Convergent projection of three separate thalamic nuclei on to a single cortical area 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Three distinct sensory-motor nuclei in the thalamus project to parietal cortex in the Virginia opossum; the ventral posterior nucleus receives inputs from somatic sensory structures and projects to layers IV and III, the ventral anterolateral nucleus receives inputs from motor structures and projects to layers IV and III and inner I, and the central intralaminar nucleus receives inputs from sensory, motor, and other structures and projects to layers VI through outer I. The physiologically defined amalgamation of somatic sensory and motor cortex is correlated, therefore, with the extent of cortex that receives convergent somatic sensory and motor input from the thalamus. 相似文献
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Induction of synaptic potentiation in hippocampus by patterned stimulation involves two events 总被引：16，自引：0，他引：16
Electrical stimulation of axons in the hippocampus with short high-frequency bursts that resemble in vivo activity patterns produces stable potentiation of postsynaptic responses when the bursts occur at intervals of 200 milliseconds but not 2 seconds. When a burst was applied to one input and a second burst applied to a different input to the same target neuron 200 milliseconds later, only the synapses activated by the second burst showed stable potentiation. This effect was observed even when the two inputs innervated completely different regions of the postsynaptic cells; but did not occur when the inputs were stimulated simultaneously or when the second burst was delayed by 2 seconds. Intracellular recordings indicated that the first burst extended the decay phase of excitatory postsynaptic potentials evoked 200 milliseconds later. These results suggest that a single burst of axonal stimulation produces a transient, spatially diffuse "priming" effect that prolongs responses to subsequent bursts, and that these altered responses trigger spatially restricted synaptic modifications. The similarity of the temporal parameters of the priming effect and the theta rhythm that dominates the hippocampal electroencephalogram (EEG) during learning episodes suggests that this priming may be involved in behaviorally induced synaptic plasticity. 相似文献
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New details of mitotic spindle structures in the endosperm of Haemanthus katherinae (Bak) have been demonstrated by differential interference microscopy. Spindle fibers are clearly seen in the living spindle extending from the kinetochores to the polar region. Individual spindle fibers consist of a bundle of smaller filaments which diverge slightly from the kinetochore and intermingle with filaments from other spindle fibers as they approach the polar region. The degree of intermingling increases during metaphase and anaphase. The chromosomes stop moving when the spindle fibers are still 5 to 10microns long; then the fibers disappear. These observations explain some aspects of spindle movements which were difficult to reconcile with earlier concepts of spindle organization. 相似文献
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To investigate whether the temporal cortex of a nonprimate species contains cells responsive to the sight of faces, a study was made in conscious sheep of the responses of neurons in this brain region to the sight of faces. Of 561 cells from which responses were recorded, 40 responded preferentially to faces. Different categories of these cells were influenced by dominance (presumably indicated by the presence and size of horns), breed and familiarity, and threatening faces such as those of humans and dogs. These results demonstrate that cells that respond preferentially to faces are present in the temporal cortex of a nonprimate species, and that the responses of these cells are influenced by factors relevant to social interaction. 相似文献
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Electrical sources in human somatosensory cortex: identification by combined magnetic and potential recordings 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
Magnetic fields and electrical potentials produced by neuronal activity have different properties that can be used for the identification of electrical sources in the human brain. Fields and potentials occurring 20 to 30 milliseconds after median nerve stimulation in human subjects were compared in order to investigate the sources of evoked potential components that have been attributed by different investigators to the thalamus or thalamocortical afferents, to separate radial sources in somatosensory cortex and motor cortex, or to a tangential source in somatosensory cortex. The magnetic and potential wave forms were highly similar in morphology, and their spatial distributions were centered over sensorimotor cortex, were dipolar in shape, and differed in orientation by approximately 90 degrees; distances between the minimum and maximum of the magnetic distributions were about 60 percent of those of the potential distributions. These results cannot be accounted for by thalamic sources or radial cortical sources alone, but are consistent with a tangential source in somatosensory cortex, with an additional smaller contribution from radial sources. 相似文献
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In primates, certain areas of the frontal cortex play a role in guiding movements toward visual or auditory objects in space. The projections from auditory centers to the frontal cortex of the bat Pteronotus parnellii were examined because echolocating bats utilize auditory cues to guide their movements in space. An area in the frontal cortex receives a direct projection from a division of the auditory thalamus, the suprageniculate nucleus, which in turn receives input from the anterolateral peri-olivary nucleus, an auditory center in the medulla. This pathway to the frontal cortex bypasses the main auditory centers in the midbrain and cortex and could involve as few as four neurons between the cochlea and the frontal cortex. The auditory cortex is also a major source of input to the frontal cortex. This area of the frontal cortex may link the auditory and motor systems by its projections to the superior colliculus. 相似文献
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Retinal cells have been induced to project into the medial geniculate nucleus, the principal auditory thalamic nucleus, in newborn ferrets by reduction of targets of retinal axons in one hemisphere and creation of alternative terminal space for these fibers in the auditory thalamus. Many cells in the medial geniculate nucleus are then visually driven, have large receptive fields, and receive input from retinal ganglion cells with small somata and slow conduction velocities. Visual cells with long conduction latencies and large contralateral receptive fields can also be recorded in primary auditory cortex. Some visual cells in auditory cortex are direction selective or have oriented receptive fields that resemble those of complex cells in primary visual cortex. Thus, functional visual projections can be routed into nonvisual structures in higher mammals, suggesting that the modality of a sensory thalamic nucleus or cortical area may be specified by its inputs during development. 相似文献
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Facilitation of spindle-burst sleep by conditioning of electroencephalographic activity while awake 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
A slow-wave electroencephalographic rhythm recorded from the sensorimotor cortex of the waking cat has been correlated behaviorally with the suppression of movement. Facilitation of this rhythm through conditioning selectively enhances a similar pattern recorded during sleep, the familiar spindle burst. The training also produced longer epochs of undisturbed sleep. The specific neural mechanism manipulated during wakefulness appears to function also in sleep and to be involved with the regulation of phasic motor behavior. 相似文献
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GRAFSTEIN B 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1963,142(3594):973-975
After topical application of thiosemicarbazide, semicarbazide, or isoniazid to the surface of an isolated region of cortex, convulsive responses to electrical stimulation appeared only after a finite number of normal responses had been elicited, and disappeared again if stimulation was interrupted for about 10 minutes. With any of the other convulsant drugs tested, development of the convulsive pattern was independent of whether or not the cortex was stimulated. The two groups of drugs evidently have dijferent modes of action. 相似文献
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Sulitable electrical stimulaltion of the region of the decussation of the olivocochlear bundles, which supply efferent innervation to the organ of Corti, was found to abolish the response of the auditory cortex to a click, without changing the responses (N(1) and N(2)) of the eighth nerve in cats. At higher stimulation values the eighth nerve responses also were abolished, and at intermediate stimulus values responses at the medial geniculate and inferior colliculus were suppressed. 相似文献
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Colombo K Grill SW Kimple RJ Willard FS Siderovski DP Gönczy P 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,300(5627):1957-1961
Asymmetric divisions are crucial for generating cell diversity; they rely on coupling between polarity cues and spindle positioning, but how this coupling is achieved is poorly understood. In one-cell stage Caenorhabditis elegans embryos, polarity cues set by the PAR proteins mediate asymmetric spindle positioning by governing an imbalance of net pulling forces acting on spindle poles. We found that the GoLoco-containing proteins GPR-1 and GPR-2, as well as the Galpha subunits GOA-1 and GPA-16, were essential for generation of proper pulling forces. GPR-1/2 interacted with guanosine diphosphate-bound GOA-1 and were enriched on the posterior cortex in a par-3- and par-2-dependent manner. Thus, the extent of net pulling forces may depend on cortical Galpha activity, which is regulated by anterior-posterior polarity cues through GPR-1/2. 相似文献
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Lee L Tirnauer JS Li J Schuyler SC Liu JY Pellman D 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2000,287(5461):2260-2262
Correct positioning of the mitotic spindle is critical for cell division and development. Spindle positioning involves a search-and-capture mechanism whereby dynamic microtubules find and then interact with specific sites on the submembrane cortex. Genetic, biochemical, and imaging experiments suggest a mechanism for cortical-microtubule capture. Bim1p, located at microtubule distal ends, bound Kar9p, a protein associated with the daughter cell cortex. Bim1p is the yeast ortholog of human EB1, a binding partner for the adenomatous polyposis coli tumor suppressor. EB1 family proteins may have a general role in linking the microtubule cytoskeleton to cortical polarity determinants. 相似文献
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应用光、电镜技术研究发现:新排卵母细胞的纺锤体位于动物极质膜下,长轴与质膜平行,卵周隙狭窄,除纺锤体区外,微绒毛呈倒伏状遍布于卵细胞表面,皮质颗粒排列于质膜下,线粒体多分布于卵母细胞近中区及染色体旁;排卵后2～4h,纺锤体在质膜下旋转90°,卵周隙增宽,微绒毛逐渐竖起,少数皮质颗粒提前外排,线粒体趋于分散,排卵后8h,纺锤体内移,微绒毛趋于融合,皮质颗粒减少,线粒体退化。 相似文献
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The cerebral cortex receives sensory input from the periphery by means of thalamic relay nuclei, but the flow of information goes both ways. Each cortical area sends a reciprocal projection back to the thalamus. In the visual system, the synaptic relations that govern the influence of thalamic afferents on orientation selectivity in the cortex have been studied extensively. It now appears that the connectivity of the corticofugal feedback pathway is also fundamentally linked to the orientation preference of the cortical cells involved. 相似文献
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【目的】探明Cdc42蛋白在牛卵母细胞成熟过程中的表达及分布规律,并且研究抑制Cdc42活性对于牛卵母细胞成熟的影响。【方法】首先通过收集体外成熟不同时间（0-24 h）的牛卵母细胞,用Western blotting的方法检测Cdc42蛋白在牛卵母细胞中的表达量变化情况,通过免疫细胞化学的方法检测Cdc42蛋白在牛卵母细胞中的分布及定位情况。根据GenBank公布的牛Cdc42基因（GenBank登录号：NM_001046332.1）的mRNA序列设计引物,并在正向和反向引物的末端分别加上KpnⅠ和EcoRⅠ酶切位点,用PCR的方法扩增牛Cdc42基因的CDS区,将PCR产物和pMD19T载体连接得到野生型的克隆载体pMD19T-Cdc42WT。用定点突变引物以pMD19T-Cdc42WT为模板进行PCR反应,得到Cdc42的显性负性突变体Cdc42T17N的克隆载体pMD19T-Cdc42T17N。将pMD19T-Cdc42WT和pMD19T-Cdc42T17N分别酶切后,将Cdc42WT（775 bp）和Cdc42T17N（775 bp）片段分别连接到pcDNA3.1（+）的多克隆位点区域,得到相应的原核表达载体pcDNA3.1（+）-Cdc42WT和pcDNA3.1（+）-Cdc42T17N。用体外转录的方法分别得到Cdc42WT和Cdc42T17N的cRNA,用显微注射的方法将相应的cRNA分别注入到牛GV期卵母细胞质内,检测其成熟率的变化。【结果】①Cdc42蛋白分别在牛卵母细胞中成熟培养0、4、8、12、16、20以及24 h时表达量没有明显差异,但是其分布规律随着减数分裂的进行发生着动态的变化：Cdc42蛋白在卵母细胞皮质区域集中分布的模式在生发泡（germinal vesicle,GV）期卵母细胞中很少出现,而在第一次减数分裂中期（metaphase Ⅰ,MⅠ）卵母细胞中出现得最多也最为明显;Cdc42蛋白在染色体附近的皮质富集的现象开始出现于前中期（pro-metaphase Ⅰ,pMⅠ）,并且出现频率从pMⅠ期到第2次减数分裂中期（metaphase Ⅱ,MⅡ）逐渐增多;Cdc42蛋白和纺锤体重叠定位的现象在第1次减数分裂后期（anaphase Ⅰ,AⅠ）到末期（telophaseⅠ,TⅠ）的卵母细胞中占有有很高比例,而到MⅡ期时这种现象又很少出现。②从牛卵母细胞的总cDNA中扩增Cdc42基因得到785 bp的片段,构建的牛Cdc42的野生型及其显性负性突变体的克隆载体pMD19T-Cdc42WT和pMD19T-Cdc42T17N经酶切鉴定和以及测序比对后,符合预期结果,即成功克隆了牛野生型Cdc42基因并得到其显性负性突变体Cdc42T17N;③构建的相应的原核表达载体pcDNA3.1（+）-Cdc42WT和pcDNA3.1（+）-Cdc42T17N经酶切鉴定和测序比对,符合预期结果,经过体外转录均得到一个3079 bases和987 bases的RNA片段,符合预期结果,即成功构建了相应的原核表达载体并获得相应的cRNA;④与正常成熟培养组和注射Cdc42WTcRNA的牛卵母细胞相比,注射Cdc42T17NcRNA的成熟率显著降低（P<0.05）。【结论】卵母细胞在卵泡发育过程中就已经积累了足够的Cdc42蛋白,而在减数分裂过程中Cdc42可以在卵母细胞的皮质以及纺锤体的位置发挥作用,而且正常的Cdc42活性是牛卵母细胞完成成熟过程并排出第一极体所必需的。 相似文献