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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2020

Functional Connectivity Between the Trigeminal Main Sensory Nucleus and the Trigeminal Motor Nucleus.

Mohammed Slaoui Hasnaoui, Isabel Arsenault, Dorly Verdier, Sami Obeid, Arlette Kolta

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammed Slaoui HasnaouiGroupe de Recherche sur le Systéme Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréeal, QC, Canada.
Isabel ArsenaultGroupe de Recherche sur le Systéme Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréeal, QC, Canada.
Dorly VerdierGroupe de Recherche sur le Systéme Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréeal, QC, Canada.
Sami ObeidGroupe de Recherche sur le Systéme Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréeal, QC, Canada.
Arlette KoltaGroupe de Recherche sur le Systéme Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréeal, QC, Canada.
Université de Montréal · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study shows new evidence of functional connectivity between the trigeminal main sensory (NVsnpr) and motor (NVmt) nuclei in rats and mice. NVsnpr neurons projecting to NVmt are most highly concentrated in its dorsal half. Their electrical stimulation induced multiphasic excitatory synaptic responses in trigeminal MNs and evoked calcium responses mainly in the jaw-closing region of NVmt. Induction of rhythmic bursting in NVsnpr neurons by local applications of BAPTA also elicited rhythmic firing or clustering of postsynaptic potentials in trigeminal motoneurons, further emphasizing the functional relationship between these two nuclei in terms of rhythm transmission. Biocytin injections in both nuclei and calcium-imaging in one of the two nuclei during electrical stimulation of the other revealed a specific pattern of connectivity between the two nuclei, which organization seemed to critically depend on the dorsoventral location of the stimulation site within NVsnpr with the most dorsal areas of NVsnpr projecting to the dorsolateral region of NVmt and intermediate areas projecting to ventromedial NVmt. This study confirms and develops earlier experiments by exploring the physiological nature and functional topography of the connectivity between NVsnpr and NVmt that was demonstrated in the past with neuroanatomical techniques.

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burst firingjaw musclesmasticationmotoneuronsNVmtNVsnprtrigeminal

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PMID32655373
PMCPMC7324845
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