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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 159, Issue 1, Pages 246-258Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.11.013
Keywords
auditory system; efferent; descending pathways; corticofugal; pyramidal cell; non-pyramidal cell
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- National Institutes of Health [DC04391]
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A large injection of a retrograde tracer into the inferior colliculus of guinea pigs labeled two bands of cells in the ipsilateral auditory cortex: a dense band of cells in layer V and a second band of cells in layer VI. On the contralateral side, labeled cells were restricted to layer V. The ipsilateral layer VI cells were distributed throughout temporal cortex, suggesting projections from multiple auditory areas. The layer VI cells included pyramidal cells as well as several varieties of non-pyramidal cells. Small tracer injections restricted to the dorsal cortex or external cortex of the inferior colliculus consistently labeled cells in layer VI. Injections restricted to the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus labeled layer VI cells only rarely. Overall, 10% of the cells in temporal cortex that project to the ipsilateral inferior colliculus were located in layer VI, suggesting that layer VI cells make a significant contribution to the corticocollicular pathway. (C) 2009 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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