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J Neurophysiol 63: 1010-1021, 1990;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 63, Issue 5 1010-1021, Copyright © 1990 by APS

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Discharge properties of single units in auditory part of reticular nucleus of thalamus in cat

G. M. Simm, F. de Ribaupierre, Y. de Ribaupierre and E. M. Rouiller
Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.

1. Extracellular recordings from 153 single units were obtained in the auditory part of the reticular nucleus (RE) of the thalamus of anesthetized cats. 2. In absence of acoustic stimulation, the majority of RE units (75%) had a spontaneous activity characterized by bursts of spikes lasting over 30 ms, alternating with isolated discharges; in contrast, only 30% of units in the medial geniculate body (MGB) showed these long bursts during spontaneous activity. 3. For a majority of RE units (65%), activity evoked by noise bursts consisted in complex response patterns with multiple excitatory and/or inhibitory components. For this stimulus, most units (79%) showed nonmonotonic rate-intensity functions, and median response latency to the first excitatory component was 16 ms, which is slightly longer than that obtained in the anterior part of the ventral division of the MGB for the same conditions. 4. Frequency tuning to pure tones in RE was usually broad: the median value of the width of response ranges was five octaves in RE, as compared to two octaves in the ventral division of the MGB and three octaves in the medial division of the MGB. Responses to tones were complex, usually characterized by frequent changes of response pattern with frequency. No preferential arrangement of units as a function of their best frequency was found along a rostrocaudal or a dorsolateral to ventromedial axis. 5. The present study demonstrates that units in the auditory part of RE have discharge properties clearly different from the main auditory thalamic nucleus, the MGB.


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