Differential central projections of physiologically characterized horizontal semicircular canal vestibular nerve afferents in the toadfish,Opsanus tau

✍ Scribed by Mensinger, Allen F.; Carey, John P.; Boyle, Richard; Highstein, Stephen M.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 402 KB
• Volume: 384
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9967
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19970721)384:1<71::aid-cne5>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

Anatomical and neurophysiological studies were undertaken to examine the central projection pattern of physiologically characterized horizontal semicircular canal vestibular nerve afferents in the toadfish, Opsanus tau. The variations in individual response characteristics of vestibular nerve afferents to rotational stimulus provided a means of typing the afferents into descriptive classes; the afferents fell into a broad continuum across the spectrum from low-gain, velocity-sensitive to high-gain, acceleration-sensitive responses (Boyle and Highstein [1990b] J. Neurosci.