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  • Title: [Effect of sectioning the mammillothalamic tract on neurons of limbic nuclei of the thalamus].
    Author: Pakhotin PI, Vinogradova OS.
    Journal: Zh Vyssh Nerv Deiat Im I P Pavlova; 1984; 34(2):303-10. PubMed ID: 6429968.
    Abstract:
    Neuronal activity of n. AV (n = 75) and n. AD (n = 55) of the thalamus was recorded extracellularly in unanaesthetized chronic rabbits after complete transection of the mammillo -thalamic tract (MTT). Elimination of this powerful afferent system produced a surprisingly small effect upon spontaneous and evoked neuronal activity. All types of responses were preserved in both nuclei, though some increase of multimodal diffuse tonic responses and decrease of more specialized phasic and complex on-effects occurred in n. AV. In both nuclei short-latency responses (less than 14 ms) to auditory stimuli disappeared. The number of units with dynamic transformations of responses during repeated stimuli application (gradual emergence and shaping of responses, as well as their habituation) decreased 2-3-fold in both nuclei. The impulse activity travelling in MTT seems to be not critical for limbic nuclei sensory reactivity but significant for plasticity of the responses.
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