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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017

Distinct Laterality in Forelimb-Movement Representations of Rat Primary and Secondary Motor Cortical Neurons with Intratelencephalic and Pyramidal Tract Projections.

Shogo Soma, Akiko Saiki, Junichi Yoshida, Alain Ríos, Masanori Kawabata, Yutaka Sakai, Yoshikazu Isomura

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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7 authors.

Shogo SomaBrain Science Institute and s.soma@lab.tamagawa.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-7381-9477
Akiko SaikiBrain Science Institute and.
Junichi YoshidaBrain Science Institute and.
Alain RíosGraduate School of Brain Sciences, Tamagawa University, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan.
Masanori KawabataGraduate School of Brain Sciences, Tamagawa University, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan.
Yutaka SakaiBrain Science Institute and.
Yoshikazu IsomuraBrain Science Institute and.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two distinct motor areas, the primary and secondary motor cortices (M1 and M2), play crucial roles in voluntary movement in rodents. The aim of this study was to characterize the laterality in motor cortical representations of right and left forelimb movements. To achieve this goal, we developed a novel behavioral task, the Right-Left Pedal task, in which a head-restrained male rat manipulates a right or left pedal with the corresponding forelimb. This task enabled us to monitor independent movements of both forelimbs with high spatiotemporal resolution. We observed phasic movement-related neuronal activity (Go-type) and tonic hold-related activity (Hold-type) in isolated unilateral movements. In both M1 and M2, Go-type neurons exhibited bias toward contralateral preference, whereas Hold-type neurons exhibited no bias. The contralateral bias was weaker in M2 than M1. Moreover, we differentiated between intratelencephalic (IT) and pyramidal tract (PT) neurons using optogenetically evoked spike collision in rats expressing channelrhodopsin-2. Even in identified PT and IT neurons, Hold-type neurons exhibited no lateral bias. Go-type PT neurons exhibited bias toward contralateral preference, whereas IT neurons exhibited no bias. Our findings suggest a different laterality of movement representations of M1 and M2, in each of which IT neurons are involved in cooperation of bilateral movements, whereas PT neurons control contralateral movements.

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalConditioning, OperantElectromyographyForelimbFunctional LateralityMaleMotor CortexMovementNeuronsOptogeneticsPyramidal TractsRatsRhodopsinTelencephalonRhodopsinchannelrhodopsin-2collison testcontralateral/ipsilateralcortical hierarchypyramidal cellrat

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PMID28972128
PMCPMC6596487

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