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Effects of lesion of the interstitial nucleus of Cajal on vestibular nuclear neurons activated by vertical vestibular stimulation (1986)

Fukushima, K. ; Takahashi, K. ; Fukushima, J. ; [weitere]

Springer

Experimental brain research 64 (1986), S. 496-504

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ISSN: 1432-1106

Schlagwort(e): Interstitial nucleus of Cajal ; Reversible lesion ; Vestibular nuclear neurons ; Vertical semicircular canal ; Vertical vestibuloocular reflex

Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Thema: Medizin

Notizen: Summary 1. Experiments were performed in cats anesthetized with nitrous oxide to study the effects of INC lesions on responses of vestibular nuclear neurons during sinusoidal rotations of the head in the vertical (pitch) plane. Responses of neurons in the INC region were recorded during pitch rotations at 0.15 Hz. A great majority of these neurons did not respond to static pitch tilts, and they seemed to respond either to anterior or to posterior semicircular canal inputs with a peak phase lag of 140 deg (re head acceleration). 2. Responses of vestibular nuclei neurons in intact cats were recorded during pitch rotations at the same frequency (0.15 Hz). Neurons that seemed to respond to vertical semicircular canal inputs showed peak phase lags of 90 deg relative to head acceleration, whereas neurons that responded to static pitch tilts showed peak phase shifts near 0 deg. These results indicate that responses of neurons in the INC region lag those of vestibular neurons by about 50 deg, suggesting that the former neurons possess a phase-lagging (i.e. integrated) vestibular signal. 3. Responses of vestibular neurons in cats that had received electrolytic lesions of bilateral INCs 1–2 weeks previously were recorded during pitch rotations at the same frequency (0.15 Hz). Neurons that presumably responded to vertical semicircular canal inputs showed a peak phase lag of 60 deg relative to head acceleration, a significant decrease of the phase lag compared to normal, whereas responses near 0 deg were unchanged. Gain values of individual cells also significantly dropped from 2.07 ± 0.67 spikes · s−1/deg · s−22 (mean ± SD; normal cats) to 1.27 ± 0.68 spikes · s−2/deg · s−2 (INC lesioned cats) at 0.15 Hz. When responses of vestibular neurons were studied during pitch rotations in the range of 0.044–0.49 Hz in these cats, a large decrease of the phase lag was observed at lower frequencies, whereas the slopes of phase lag curves of vestibular neurons in intact cats were rather flat. 4. Procaine infusion into the bilateral INCs not only resulted in a decrease of 20–50 deg in the phase lag in responses of vestibular neurons that had lagged head acceleration by 90–140 deg before procaine infusion, but also dropped the gain of the response to rotation by an average of 31%, whereas responses of neurons that had showed phase shifts near 0 deg were not influenced consistently. Simultaneous recording of the vestibular neurons and the vertical vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) indicated that the phase advance and gain drop of vestibular neurons occurred earlier than those of the VOR. These results exclude the possibility that the change in dynamic response of vestibular neurons after procaine infusion is due to depression of general brain stem activity that may lead to the phase advance of the VOR, and suggest that the decrease of the phase lag and gain drop in responses of the vestibular neurons was caused by removal of the phase-lagging, feedback signal coming from the INC to the vestibular nuclei.

Materialart: Digitale Medien

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00340487

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Digitale Medien

Pore size evaluation for fine porous freeze-dried cellulose acetate membrane by gas separation (1985)

Tanioka, A. ; Ishikawa, K. ; Kakuta, A. ; [weitere]

New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell

Journal of Applied Polymer Science 30 (1985), S. 695-707

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ISSN: 0021-8995

Schlagwort(e): Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science

Quelle: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000

Thema: Chemie und Pharmazie , Maschinenbau , Physik

Notizen: The pore size for a fine porous freeze-dried cellulose acetate membrane was evaluated by gas separation methods, where the Present-deBethune equation was applied. Separation coefficients were referred to the calculated value for each pore size from this equation. Nuclepore, Millipore VS, and Millipore VC, whose pore sizes were already known by bubble point method, were tested for this method. Pore diameters for this cellulose acetate membrane, thus determined, were about 25 and 40 Å from Ar-Kr and N2-Kr separation systems, respectively, which agreed well with the results from electron microscope (50 Å) and N2 gas permeability (50 Å). However, it is impossible to apply this method to He gas separation, since He gas permeability is higher than the expected value as Knudsen flow, which indicates that some channels are existing in this membrane, where He gas is more permeable than the other gases.

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