期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
卷 518, 期 7, 页码 1030-1045出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22261
关键词
dental; intracortical microstimulation; ICMS; orofacial; plasticity; muscles
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MT-4918]
Loss of teeth is associated with changes in somatosensory inputs and altered patterns of mastication, but it is unclear whether tooth loss is associated with changes in motor representations within face sensorimotor cortex of rats. We used intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) and recordings of cortically evoked muscle electromyographic (EMG) activities to test whether changes occur in the ICMS-defined motor representations of the left and right jaw muscles [masseter, anterior digastric (LAD, RAD)] and tongue muscle [genioglossus (GG)] within the cytoarchitectonically defined face primary motor cortex (face-M 1) and adjacent face primary somatosensory cortex (face-S1) 1 week following extraction of the right mandibular incisor in anesthetized (ketamine-HCl) adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Under local and general anesthesia, an extraction group (n = 8) received mucoalveolar bone surgery and extraction of the mandibular right incisor. A sham-extraction group (n = 6) received surgery with no extraction. A naive group (n = 6) had neither surgery nor extraction. Data were compared by using mixed-model repeated-measures ANOVA. Dental extraction was associated with a significantly increased number of sites within face-M 1 and face-S1 from which ICMS evoked RAID EMG activities, a lateral shift of the RAID and LAD centers of gravity within face-M1, shorter onset latencies of ICMS-evoked GG activities within face-M1 and face-S1, and an increased number of sites within face-Ml from which ICMS simultaneously evoked RAID and GG activities. Our novel findings suggest that dental extraction may be associated with significant neuroplastic changes within the rat's face-M1 and adjacent face-S1 that may be related to the animal's ability to adapt to the altered oral state. J. Comp. Neurol. 518:1030-1045, 2010. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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