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Structural Basis of the Inhibitory Functions of the Efferent Systems of the Parietal Cortex

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The relative quantitative distributions of all associative and descending efferent fibers and the ultrastructural organization of terminals of the parietal cortex (fields 5 and 7) in the caudate nucleus (NC) and red nucleus (NR) in cats were studied after local point lesions to the cortex in these fields. The maximal projections of associative fibers were found to be to the fundal fields of the motor cortex and the Clare–Bishop field, with a moderate projection to fields 31 and 19, and occasional degenerating fibers to fields 1, 2, 3a, 3d, 30, and 23. Among descending fibers, the most extensive projections were to the NC, NR, reticular nucleus, and midbrain nuclei, as well as to the pontine nuclei, where immunocytochemical studies revealed mainly GABAergic terminals. Electron microscopic studies led to the suggestion that the influences of the parietal cortex are mediated by axospinous synapses of intermediate short-axon spiny cells of the dorsolateral part of the head of the NC and axodendritic synapses of Golgi II cells in the parvocellular part of the NR. Given the maximal involvement of the fundal fields of the motor cortex and the inhibitory subcortical (NC) and stem nuclei (NR, reticular nuclei of the thalamus), midbrain, and pontine nuclei), we suggest that they serve as the morphological substrate mediating the inhibitory integrative function of the parietal cortex.

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Ipekchyan, N.M. Structural Basis of the Inhibitory Functions of the Efferent Systems of the Parietal Cortex. Neurosci Behav Physi 42, 988–995 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-012-9667-y

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