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J Neurophysiol 87: 434-452, 2002;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 87 No. 1 January 2002, pp. 434-452
Copyright ©2002 by the American Physiological Society

Immediate Changes in Tuning of Inferior Colliculus Neurons Following Acute Lesions of Cat Spiral Ganglion

Russell L. Snyder1 and Donal G. Sinex2

 1Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0526; and  2Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1908

Snyder, Russell L. and Donal G. Sinex. Immediate Changes in Tuning of Inferior Colliculus Neurons Following Acute Lesions of Cat Spiral Ganglion. J. Neurophysiol. 87: 434-452, 2002. In previous studies, we demonstrated that acute lesions the spiral ganglion (SG), the cells of origin of the auditory nerve (AN), change the frequency organization of the inferior colliculus central nucleus (ICC) and primary auditory cortex (AI). In those studies, we used a map/re-map approach and recorded the tonotopic organization of neurons before and after restricted SG lesions. In the present study, response areas (RAs) of ICC multi-neuronal clusters were recorded to contralateral and ipsilateral tones after inserting and fixing-in-place tungsten microelectrodes. RAs were recorded from most electrodes before, immediately (within 33-78 min) after, and long (several hours) after restricted mechanical lesions of the ganglion. Each SG lesion produced a "notch" in the tone-evoked compound action potential (CAP) audiogram corresponding to a narrow range of lesion frequencies with elevated thresholds. Responses of contralateral IC neurons, which responded to these lesion frequencies, underwent an elevation in threshold to the lesion frequencies with either no change in sensitivity to other frequencies or with dramatic decreases in threshold to lesion-edge frequencies. These changes in sensitivity produced shifts in characteristic frequency (CF) that could be more than an octave. Thresholds at these new CFs matched the prelesion thresholds of neurons tuned to the lesion-edge frequencies. Responses evoked by ipsilateral tones delivered to the intact ear often underwent complementary changes, i.e., decreased thresholds to lesion frequency tones with little or no change in sensitivity to other frequencies. These results indicate that responses of IC neurons are produced by convergence of auditory information across a wide range of AN fibers and that the acute "plastic" changes reported in our previous studies occur within 1 h of an SG lesion.




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