Observations on the pyramidal tract of the slow loris |
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Authors: | Gernot S Doetsch Arnold L Towe |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, 98195 Seattle, Washington;(2) Present address: Department of Surgery (Section of Neurosurgery) and Department of Physiology, Medical College of Georgia, 30912 Augusta, Georgia |
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Abstract: | The pyramidal system of the slow loris was investigated physiologically and histologically. The cerebral response to medullary
pyramid stimulation was mapped and found to distribute in two separate foci, rostral to the hand and foot somatosensory foci.
The tract was found to contain about 204,000 fibers at the midolivary level on one side, with about 85% of the fibers less
than 2 Μm and 1% greater than 4 Μm. Calculation of the amplitude and configuration of the true antidromic response, based
on the histological findings, disagreed with the observed response. The latter was found to be analogous to the rwave of the American opossum, which appears to result from intracortical pyramidal tract collateral activation of the cerebral
neurons. This response is not present in the macaque monkey. |
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Keywords: | slow loris pyramidal tract fiber spectrum antidromic response |
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