Abstract:
:After a unilateral resection of the frontal cortex in fetal cats the volume of the caudate nucleus increases while the packing density of neuronal and glial cells does not change. In the present report we address the questions of whether a similar lesion sustained neonatally or a more extensive neodecortication sustained neonatally or in adulthood may have the same unusual effect. Stereological methods were used to determine bilaterally the volume of the caudate nucleus as well as to estimate the total number and packing density of neurons and glial cells in the caudate nucleus ipsilateral to the lesion. Comparisons between each of three experimental groups and intact animals were made at a time when all animals were young adults. In cats with a unilateral frontal cortical lesion performed between postnatal days 8 and 14, none of the measured parameters changed significantly compared to intact controls. In cats with removal of the entire left neocortex in adulthood, the ipsilateral caudate nucleus volume decreased by 18.1% and by 21.5% relative to intact and to neonatal hemidecorticated cats respectively (P < 0.05), with no change in the contralateral caudate. In the ipsilateral caudate the total number of neurons decreased by 21.8% (P < 0.05) compared to controls while the number of glial cells did not change significantly. In the same caudate the packing density of neurons did not change significantly (except for a 17.1% decrease, P < 0.05, relative to frontal-lesioned cats) while that of glial cells increased by 19.9% and by 24.7% compared to intact and neonatal neodecorticated cats respectively (P < 0.05). In adult cats in which a similar hemineodecortication was performed between postnatal days 8 and 13, the only significant changes were a 25.8% (P < 0.05) and a 30.6% (P < 0.05) decrease in neuron packing density compared to intact and frontal-lesioned cats, respectively. In summary, a restricted unilateral neocortical resection in neonatal cats did not induce any morphological changes in the caudate nucleus that we could detect with the methods employed. In contrast, an extensive neodecortication sustained in adulthood produced ipsilateral caudate shrinkage with substantial neuron loss and increase in packing density of glial cells, while a similar lesion but sustained neonatally only altered substantially the packing density of glial cells (decreased). Therefore, we concluded that (i) the caudate nucleus hypertrophy which we reported after a unilateral discrete cortical removal during the prenatal period is a unique phenomenon which is peculiar to the cat brain during the last third of gestation; (ii) the caudate nucleus changes seen in the cats with hemineodecortication in adulthood are degenerative in nature and closely resemble those which we reported for other subcortical nuclei following a similar lesion; and (iii) the animals with neonatal hemidecortication are relatively spared from these degenerative effects. Overall, these results indicate that, as for other structures, the morphological changes of the caudate nucleus following neocortical damage depend on the maturational state of the brain at the time of the injury and on the size of the lesion, and support the notion that the consequences of cerebral cortex lesions upon subcortical brain nuclei are of a different nature when sustained in prenatal as compared to postnatal cats.
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Neurosciencejournal_title
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Loopuijt LD,Villablanca JR,Hovda DA,Huang E,Mancuso Sdoi
10.1016/s0306-4522(96)00457-5subject
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1997-03-01 00:00:00pages
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