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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 72, Issue 2 785-802, Copyright © 1994 by APS
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P. Mettens, E. Godaux, G. Cheron and H. L. Galiana
Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Mons, Belgium.
1. For horizontal eye movements, previous observations led to the hypothesis that the legendary neural integrator necessary for correct gaze holding, adequate vestibuloocular reflex (VOR), and optokinetic nystagmus, was located in the region of the complex formed by the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH) and the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN). 2. The aim of the present study was to test the respective contributions of the NPH, of the rostral part of the MVN, which contains most second-order vestibular neurons, and of the central part of the MVN to the horizontal integrator. 3. An injection of muscimol was used to inactivate each of these three zones in the cat's brain. Muscimol is a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonist. By binding to GABAA receptors, it induces a hyperpolarization of the neurons that nullifies their activity. Muscimol was injected into the brain stem of the alert cat through a micropipette by an air pressure system. 4. The search coil technique was used to record spontaneous eye movements and the VOR induced by rotating a turntable at a constant velocity. VOR was analyzed by a new method: transient analysis of vestibular nystagmus. 5. A unilateral injection of muscimol into the NPH induced a bilateral gaze-holding failure: saccades were followed by a centripetal postsaccadic drift. A vestibular imbalance was also present but it was moderate and variable. The VOR responses were distorted drastically. Through transient analysis of vestibular nystagmus, that distortion was revealed to be due more to a failure of the neural integrator than to an alteration of the vestibular input to the neural integrator. The responses to a rotation either toward the injected side or in the opposite direction were asymmetrical. The direction of that asymmetry was variable. 6. A unilateral injection of muscimol into the rostral part of the MVN caused a vestibular imbalance: in complete darkness, a nystagmus appeared, whose linear slow phases were directed toward the side of injection. 7. A unilateral injection of muscimol into the central part of the MVN induced a syndrome where a severe bilateral gaze-holding failure was combined with a vestibular imbalance. In the light, saccades were followed by a bilateral centripetal postsaccadic drift. In complete darkness, a nystagmus was observed, whose curved slow phases were directed towards the side of injection. The VOR responses were distorted drastically. Here again, that distortion was revealed by our analysis to be due more to a failure of the neural integrator than to an alteration of the vestibular input to the neural integrator.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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