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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
卷 506, 期 2, 页码 301-327出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21513
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caudate; putamen; viscera; homeostasis; cardiac
We recently reported that the thalamic parafascicular nucleus (Pf) in monkeys is strongly activated by vagus nerve afferents. The main forebrain target of Pf is the striaturn, but the specific striatal regions receiving visceral input via this pathway are unknown. We examined the projections of this region by injecting anterograde tracers into the vagus evoked potential (VEP) focus in Pf of macaque monkeys. The VEP was strongest lateral and anterior to the habenulointerpeduncular tract, but it was distributed across the entire horizontal extent of the ventral half of Pf. All injections produced labeled terminals in the caudate (Cd), especially the Cd tail and the adjacent ventral posterior Pu. Terminations occurred throughout the Cd head and body but spared the most anterior and dorsolateral parts. Injections in more anterior and lateral portions of Pf produced progressively more terminations in Pu, mainly in the precommissural region and the medial aspect of posterior Pu. Dual injections of different tracers revealed overlapping projections with interdigitated strands of striatal terminations from separate regions of Pf as well as the posteromedial to anterolateral topographic gradient of increasing Pf projections to Pu. An injection in the most anteromedial portion of Pf produced strong labeling in the ventral striatum. Thus, Pf transmits viscerosensory information to the associative and limbic territories of the striatum. These findings suggest the broad involvement of homeostatic afferent activity in striatal function and perhaps a role for the striatum in autonomic function.
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