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1 Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dbarth{at}psych.colorado.edu.
High frequency oscillatory activity (>200Hz) termed "fast oscillations" or FO have been recorded in the rodent somatosensory cortex, and may reflect very rapid integration of vibrissal information in sensory cortex. Yet, while electrophysiological correlates suggest that FO is generated within intra-cortical networks, contributions of subcortical structures along the trigeminal pathway remain uncertain. Using surface and laminar electrode arrays, in vivo recordings of vibrissal and electrically-evoked FO were made within somatosensory cortex of anesthetized rodents before and after ablation of the ventrobasal thalamus (VB) or during reversible cortical cooling. In VB-lesioned animals, vibrissal stimulation failed to evoke FO, while epicortical stimulation in lesioned animals remained effective in generating FO. In non-lesioned animals, cortical cooling eliminated vibrissal-evoked FO in spite of the persistence of thalamocortical input. Vibrissal-evoked FO returned with the return to physiological temperatures. Results from this study indicate that somatosensory cortex alone is able to initiate and sustain FO. Moreover, these data suggest that cortical network interactions are solely responsible for the generation of FO, while synchronized thalamocortical input serves as the afferent trigger.
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