扣带皮层前部对丘脑腹侧基底核触觉神经元ON-OFF反应的易化性影响

实验在41只氨基甲酸乙酯(25%)麻醉的SD雄性大鼠上进行. 采用细胞外微电极记录的方法, 首先观察了大鼠丘脑腹侧基底核(ventrobasal thalamus nucleus, VB) ON-OFF神经元的触觉反应特性, 并对不同的ON-OFF反应进行了分型, 分析了ON-OFF反应不同型式与刺激参数之间的关系. 在此基础上, 进一步考察了刺激扣带皮层前部(anterior cingulate cortex, ACC)对ON-OFF神经元触觉反应的影响. 实验发现, ACC的刺激对触觉ON-OFF神经元的OFF反应有易化效应, 表现在降低OFF反应的阈值, 从而改变了反应构型, 或者增加原OFF反应的放电频数. 在关于ON-OFF反应神经元感受野的研究中发现, 扣带皮层前部的兴奋可以使ON-OFF反应神经元感受野边缘的ON反应改变为ON-OFF反应, 从而使其对感受野内刺激物运动的时空信息的编码更为明确, 发现了边缘系统能够对触觉上传信息进行调制.     

The facilitatory influence of anterior cingulate cortex on ON-OFF response of tactile neuron in thalamic ventrobasal nucleus

The structures of limbic system have been found to modulate the auditory, visual and pain afferent signals in the related nuclei of thalamus. One of those structures is anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that influences nocuous response of the pain-sensitive neurons in the ventropos-tero-lateral nucleus of thalamus. Thus, we inferred that ACC would also modulate tactile information at the thalamic level. To test this assumption, single units were recorded extracellularly from thalamic ventrobasal nucleus (VB). Tactile ON-OFF response and the relationship between different patterns of the responses and the parameters of tactile stimulation were examined. Furthermore, the influence of ACC on the tactile ON-OFF response was studied. ACC stimulation was found to produce a facilitatory effect on the OFF-response of ON-OFF neurons. It lowered the threshold of the off-response of that neuron, and therefore changed the response pattern or enhanced the firing rate of the OFF-response of the neuron. The study on rec     

一种可控电磁触觉刺激器的研制

介绍了一种可控电磁触觉刺激装置的制作方法, 该装置能够与电子计算机记录系统同步地工作,并且能够控制触压刺激的速度、时程及强度。文中对该装置的工作原理、构造及应用情况分别作了介绍。