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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 78 No. 2 August 1997, pp. 689-702
Copyright ©1997 The American Physiological Society

Correlation of Peripheral Innervation Density and Dorsal Horn Map Scale

Lei Wang, Ronald Millecchia, and Paul B. Brown

Physiology Department, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506

Wang, Lei, Ronald Millecchia, and Paul B. Brown. Correlation of peripheral innervation density and dorsal horn map scale. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 689-702, 1997. Dorsal horn map scale and peripheral innervation density were compared to test a hypothesized linear relationship. In anesthetized cats, low-threshold mechanoreceptive peripheral nerve innervation fields (IFs) were measured by outlining areas of skin from which action potentials could be elicited in cutaneous nerves. The same nerves were processed histologically and used to count myelinated axons. Innervation density for each nerve was calculated as number of axons divided by IF area. Single units were recorded throughout the hindlimb representation, in laminae III and IV. These data, combined with single-unit data from other animals and with cell counts in laminae III and IV, permitted estimation of numbers of cells whose receptive field centers fell in contiguous 1-cm bands from tips of toes to proximal thigh. A similar estimate was performed with the use of the nerve innervation data, so that peripheral innervation densities and map scales for the different 1-cm bands of skin could be compared. Correlation between the two was quite high (r = 0.8), and highly significant (P = 2.5 × 10-7). These results are consistent with a proposed developmental model in which map scale, peripheral innervation density, and reciprocal of dorsal horn cell receptive field size are mutually proportional, as a result of developmental mechanisms that produce constant divergence and convergence between primary afferent axons and dorsal horn cells.




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