Contralateral representation of tongue thermal information in the rat thalamus.
Twenty-six thalamic neurons receiving innocuous thermal inputs from the tongue were identified in a limited region extending from the dorsomedial region of the posteromedial ventral nucleus to the dorsolateral region of the parvicellular part. Nine neurons had a cold receptive field and one neuron had neighboring cold and warm receptive fields on the anterior tongue contralateral to the recording side.
Hayama
Tomio
T
Department of Physiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan. hayama@kaiju.medic.kummamoto-u.ac.jp
Ogawa
Hisashi
H
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003080:Cold Temperature; D004594:Electrophysiology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008297:Male; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014059:Tongue / Q000294:innervation*