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Volume 17, Number 1,
Issue of January 1, 1997
pp. 308-324
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Synaptic Integration of Functionally Diverse Pallidal Information
in the Entopeduncular Nucleus and Subthalamic Nucleus in the Rat
Received Aug. 13, 1996; accepted Oct. 2, 1996.
Mark D. Bevan,
Nick P. Clarke, and
J. Paul Bolam
Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit and
University Department of Pharmacology, Oxford OX1 3TH, United
Kingdom
To determine the principles of synaptic innervation of neurons in
the entopeduncular nucleus and subthalamic nucleus by neurons of
functionally distinct regions of the pallidal complex, double anterograde labeling was carried out at both light and electron microscopic levels in the rat. Deposits of the anterograde tracers Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin and biotinylated
dextran amine were placed in different functional domains of the
pallidal complex in the same animals. The tracer deposits in the
ventral pallidum and the globus pallidus gave rise to
GABA-immunopositive projections to the entopeduncular nucleus, the
subthalamic nucleus, and the more medial lateral hypothalamus that were
largely segregated but overlapped at the interface between the two
fields of projection. In these regions the proximal parts of individual
neurons in the entopeduncular nucleus, lateral hypothalamus, and
subthalamic nucleus received synaptic input from terminals derived from
both the ventral pallidum and the globus pallidus. Furthermore, the analysis of the afferent synaptic input to the dendrites of neurons in
the subthalamic nucleus that cross functional boundaries of the nucleus
defined by the pallidal inputs, revealed that terminals with the
morphological and neurochemical characteristics of those derived from
the pallidal complex make synaptic contact with all parts of the
dendritic tree, including distal regions.
It is concluded that functionally diverse information carried by the
descending projections of the pallidal complex is synaptically integrated by neurons of the entopeduncular nucleus, lateral
hypothalamus, and subthalamic nucleus by two mechanisms. First, neurons
located at the interface between functionally distinct, but
topographically adjacent, projections could integrate diverse
information by means of the synaptic convergence at the level of the
cell body and proximal dendrites. Second, because the distal dendrites
of neurons in the subthalamic nucleus receive input from the pallidum,
those that extend across two distinct domains of pallidal input could also provide the morphological basis of integration.
Key words:
ventral pallidum;
globus pallidus;
subthalamic nucleus;
entopeduncular nucleus;
basal ganglia;
synaptic convergence
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