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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 84 No. 4 October 2000, pp. 1982-1987
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Activity Patterns in the Monkey Thalamus During Visual Behavior

E. J. Ramcharan, C. L. Cox, X. J. Zhan, S. M. Sherman, and J. W. Gnadt

Department of Neurobiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794

Ramcharan, E. J., C. L. Cox, X. J. Zhan, S. M. Sherman, and J. W. Gnadt. Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Activity Patterns in the Monkey Thalamus During Visual Behavior. J. Neurophysiol. 84: 1982-1987, 2000. We show for the first time with in vitro recording that burst firing in thalamic relay cells of the monkey is evoked by activation of voltage-dependent, low threshold Ca2+ spikes (LTSs), as has been described in other mammals. Due to variations in LTS amplitude, the number of action potentials evoked by an LTS could vary between 1 and 8. These data confirm the presence of two modes of firing in the monkey for thalamic relay cells, tonic and burst, the latter related to the activation of LTSs. With these details of the cellular processes underlying burst firing, we could account for many of the firing patterns we recorded from the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus in behaving monkeys. In particular, we found clear evidence of burst firing during alert wakefulness, which had been thought to occur only during sleep or certain pathological states. This makes it likely that the burst firing seen in awake humans has the same cellular basis of LTSs, and this supports previous suggestions that burst firing represents an important relay mode for visual processing.




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