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Volume 17, Number 23, Issue of December 1, 1997 pp. 9233-9247

Subcortical Input to the Smooth and Saccadic Eye Movement Subregions of the Frontal Eye Field in Cebus Monkey

Received Jan. 2, 1997; revised Sept. 11, 1997; accepted Sept. 15, 1997.

Jun-ru Tian¹ and James C. Lynch^{1, 2, 3}

Departments of ¹ Anatomy, ² Ophthalmology, and ³ Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505

We have recently identified two functional subregions in the frontal eye field (FEF) of the Cebus monkey, a smooth eye movement subregion (FEFsem) and a saccadic subregion (FEFsac). The thalamic input to these two subregions was studied and quantified to gain more information about the influence of the cerebellum and basal ganglia on the oculomotor control mechanisms of the cerebral cortex. A recent study using transneuronal transport of virus demonstrated that there are neurons in the basal ganglia and cerebellum that project to the FEFsac with only a single intervening synapse (). In the present study, we concentrated on the thalamic input to the FEFsem to define possible basal ganglia-thalamus-cortex and cerebellum-thalamus-cortex channels of information flow to the FEFsem. We localized the functional subregions using low threshold microstimulation, and retrogradely transported fluorescent tracers were then placed into the FEFsem and FEFsac.

The neurons that project to the FEFsem are distributed in (1) the rostral portion of the ventral lateral nucleus, pars caudalis, (2) the caudal portion of the ventral lateral nucleus, pars caudalis, (3) the mediodorsal nucleus, (4) the ventral anterior nucleus, pars parvocellularis, and (5) the ventral anterior nucleus, pars magnocellularis. In contrast, the large majority of neurons that project to the FEFsac are located in the paralaminar region of the mediodorsal nucleus. The FEFsac and FEFsem thus each receive neural input from both basal ganglia-receiving and cerebellar-receiving cell groups in the thalamus, but each receives input from a unique combination of thalamic nuclei.

Key words: pursuit eye movements; saccades; basal ganglia; substantia nigra; cerebellum; frontal eye field; supplementary eye field; thalamus; Cebus monkeys

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