Histochemical demonstration of sensory maps in the rat and mouse cerebral cortex

Brain Res. 1987 Aug 18;418(1):178-82. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(87)90977-2.

Abstract

The variations in metabolic activity of two mitochondrial enzymes (succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase) have been mapped histochemically in rat and mouse brains prepared in such a manner as to reveal the whole surface of the neocortex in one plane. In each species the enzymes appear to outline the complete body representation map in the somatosensory cortex as well as the primary visual and auditory areas.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain Mapping
  • Cerebral Cortex / enzymology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Electron Transport Complex IV / analysis*
  • Evoked Potentials
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Rats
  • Somatosensory Cortex / enzymology
  • Somatosensory Cortex / physiology
  • Species Specificity
  • Succinate Dehydrogenase / analysis*

Substances

  • Succinate Dehydrogenase
  • Electron Transport Complex IV