Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 69, Issue 2 642-645, Copyright © 1993 by APS

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Properties of superior vestibular nucleus neurons projecting to the cerebellar flocculus in the squirrel monkey

Y. Zhang, A. M. Partsalis and S. M. Highstein
Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

1. Properties of superior vestibular nucleus (SVN) neurons and their projection to the cerebellar flocculus were studied in alert squirrel monkeys by using chronic unit and eye movement recording and microstimulation techniques. Twenty-three cells were antidromically activated from the ipsilateral flocculus, and seventeen of these were also orthodromically activated from the ipsilateral VIIth nerve at monosynaptic latencies. Only 1 of these 23 units was also inhibited by flocculus stimulation. According to their response properties, 9 of the cells were pure vestibular, 2 were vestibular-pause, and 12 were position-vestibular cells. The mean eye position sensitivity of these position-vestibular cells was significantly lower than that of cells projecting to the oculomotor nucleus (OMN). No eye movement-only neurons were antidromically activated from the flocculus. No cells could be antidromically activated from both the oculomotor nucleus and the flocculus.

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