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Volume 17, Number 7, Issue of April 1, 1997 pp. 2477-2491
Copyright ©1997 Society for NeuroscienceCortically Driven Immediate-Early Gene Expression Reflects Modular Influence of Sensorimotor Cortex on Identified Striatal Neurons in the Squirrel Monkey
Received Sept. 30, 1996; revised Jan. 7, 1997; accepted Jan. 9, 1997.
H.B. Parthasarathy and A.M. Graybiel Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Current understanding of basal ganglia function emphasizes their involvement in the focal, context-dependent release of motor and cognitive circuits in the brainstem and frontal lobes. How such selective action can arise despite the existence of massively convergent inputs from the cerebral cortex is unknown. However, anatomical work has suggested that specificity could be achieved in corticostriatal circuits by modular patterns of convergent and divergent cortical inputs to striatal projection neurons. To test for such modular activation of striatal neurons, we electrically microstimulated physiologically identified sites in the primary somatosensory (SI) and primary motor (MI) cortex of the squirrel monkey. We compared the efferent fiber distributions anterogradely traced from these sites to the distributions of striatal neurons activated by microstimulation to express Fos- and Jun B-like immediate-early gene proteins. We show that the microstimulation of sensorimotor cortex induces Fos and Jun B expression in localized cell clusters in the putamen and that these clusters match the anatomical input fiber clusters (matrisomes). The modular activation of striatal neurons by sensorimotor cortex seems likely. Unexpectedly, >75% of the Fos-positive nuclei in densely labeled cell clusters were in enkephalin-immunoreactive neurons. This expression pattern suggests that the primate sensorimotor cortex exerts a differential influence on the enkephalinergic (indirect pathway) as opposed to the substance P/dynorphin (direct pathway) projection neurons of the putamen. The densely labeled clusters of Fos-labeled enkephalinergic neurons occurred within larger zones containing sparsely distributed Fos-labeled parvalbumin neurons. Moreover, when the cortical stimulation induced expression of Fos-like protein only in sparsely distributed neurons, almost every putamenal neuron expressing Fos was a parvalbumin-containing (GABAergic) interneuron. These patterns suggest a model in which the primate sensorimotor cortex can target parvalbumin-containing inhibitory interneurons, which in turn depress the remaining neuronal activity within and around matrisomes in a feed-forward manner until sufficient coherent cortical input can overcome the inhibition to influence selectively enkephalinergic projection neurons in the activated matrisomes. Tuning of cortical input by striatal interneurons thus may be an important mechanism by which broader anatomical connections are dynamically adjusted to achieve selective flow of information through the basal ganglia.
Key words: basal ganglia; striatum; somatosensory cortex; motor cortex; Fos; Jun B; immediate-early gene; interneuron; parvalbumin; coherent activity; primate; tract tracing; striosome-matrix
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