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J Neurophysiol 82: 1178-1186, 1999;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 82 No. 3 September 1999, pp. 1178-1186
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

Smooth-Pursuit Eye-Movement Deficits With Chemical Lesions in Macaque Nucleus Reticularis Tegmenti Pontis

David A. Suzuki,1 Tetsuto Yamada,2 Rebecca Hoedema,1 and Robert D. Yee1

 1Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202; and  2Department of Ophthalmology, Kitasato University, Kitasato 228, Japan

Suzuki, David A., Tetsuto Yamada, Rebecca Hoedema, and Robert D. Yee. Smooth-Pursuit Eye-Movement Deficits With Chemical Lesions in Macaque Nucleus Reticularis Tegmenti Pontis. J. Neurophysiol. 82: 1178-1186, 1999. Anatomic and neuronal recordings suggest that the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis (NRTP) of macaques may be a major pontine component of a cortico-ponto-cerebellar pathway that subserves the control of smooth-pursuit eye movements. The existence of such a pathway was implicated by the lack of permanent pursuit impairment after bilateral lesions in the dorsolateral pontine nucleus. To provide more direct evidence that NRTP is involved with regulating smooth-pursuit eye movements, chemical lesions were made in macaque NRTP by injecting either lidocaine or ibotenic acid. Injection sites first were identified by the recording of smooth-pursuit-related modulations in neuronal activity. The resulting lesions caused significant deficits in both the maintenance and the initiation of smooth-pursuit eye movements. After lesion formation, the gain of constant-velocity, maintained smooth-pursuit eye movements decreased, on the average, by 44%. Recovery of the ability to maintain smooth-pursuit eye movements occurred over ~3 days when maintained pursuit gains attained normal values. The step-ramp, "Rashbass" task was used to investigate the effects of the lesions on the initiation of smooth-pursuit eye movements. Eye accelerations averaged over the initial 80 ms of pursuit initiation were determined and found to be decremented, on the average, by 48% after the administration of ibotenic acid. Impairments in the initiation and maintenance of smooth-pursuit eye movements were directional in nature. Upward pursuit seemed to be the most vulnerable and was impaired in all cases independent of lesioning agent and type of pursuit investigated. Downward smooth pursuit seemed more resistant to the effects of chemical lesions in NRTP. Impairments in horizontal tracking were observed with examples of deficits in ipsilaterally and contralaterally directed pursuit. The results provide behavioral support for the physiologically and anatomic-based conclusion that NRTP is a component of a cortico-ponto-cerebellar circuit that presumably involves the pursuit area of the frontal eye field (FEF) and projects to ocular motor-related areas of the cerebellum. This FEF-NRTP-cerebellum path would parallel a middle and medial superior temporal cerebral cortical area-dorsolateral pontine nucleus-cerebellum pathway also known to be involved with regulating smooth-pursuit eye movements.




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