Lesion-induced reorganization in the brainstem is not completely expressed in somatosensory cortex.

AUTOR(ES)

Lane, R D

RESUMO

Electrophysiological and neuroanatomical methods were used to determine the extent to which neonatal forelimb removal altered the organization of the cuneate nucleus and representations of the fore- and hindlimbs in the primary somatosensory cortex of adult rats. Neonatal forelimb removal resulted in invasion of the cuneate nucleus by sciatic nerve primary afferents and development of cuneothalamic projection neurons with split receptive fields that included both the hindlimb and forelimb stump. Mapping in the primary somatosensory cortex of the neonatally manipulated adult rats demonstrated abnormalities, but the major change observed in the cuneate nucleus was demonstrable at only a few (5%) cortical recording sites in the remaining stump representation and there were none at all in the hindlimb representation. These results suggest that lesion-induced brainstem reorganization may be functionally suppressed at either the thalamic or cortical level.

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