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. 1975 Feb;245(2):409–424. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1975.sp010853

Organization of climbing fibre projections to the cerebellar cortex from trigeminal cutaneous afferents and from the SI face area of the cerebral cortex in the cat.

T S Miles, M Wiesendanger
PMCID: PMC1330794  PMID: 1142174

Abstract

1. In cats anaesthetized with pentobarbitone, the projection of climbing fibres (CFs) to the cerebellar cortex from trigeminal cutaneous branches and from the face area of the sensorimotor (SI) cortex was mapped, using the technique of laminar field potential analysis. 2. The CF projections from both the trigeminal nerve and the SI face area were found to be localized to the same cerebellar folia, viz. chiefly the ipsilateral lobule HVI, with a small overlap on to the adjacent folia of lobule V and crus Ia of HVIIA. Frequently a projection from the superficial radial nerve to part or all of this area, was also found. 3. A correspondence in the distribution and amplitudes of CF potentials evoked at most points by stimulation of the trigeminal nerve and the SI cortex was found. This implies a convergence of afferents from these two sources at or before the inferior olive. 4. In more than half of the cats, a small area of the cerebellar hemisphere was found, in which contralateral as well as ipsilateral trigeminal stimulation would evoke CF potentials. Usually inputs from the superficial radial nerve and the SI cortex also converged upon this area. 5. The organization of CF projections from trigeminal and superficial radial nerve afferents to the cerebellar hemisphere was found to occur in the same 'patchy' pattern of somatotopy that has been described for spinal nerve inputs to the anterior lobe. 6. One constant factor was found in the pattern of organization of CF projections to this area from cutaneous afferent nerves. That is, only the afferents from overlapping areas of skin projected to a given recording point: no instance of CF projections from trigeminal branches innervating discontinuous skin areas was observed.

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