Cerebral Cortex, Vol 7, 453-464, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
AE Herman, AM Galaburda, RH Fitch, AR Carter and GD Rosen
Induction of microgyria by freezing injury to the developing somatosensory
cortex of neonatal rats causes a defect in fast auditory processing in
males, but not in females. It was speculated that early damage to the
cortex has sexually dimorphic cascading effects on other brain regions
mediating auditory processing, which can lead to the observed behavioral
deficits. In the current series of experiments, bilateral microgyri were
induced by placement of a freezing probe on the skulls of newborn male and
female rats, and these animals were tested in adulthood for auditory
temporal processing. Control animals received sham surgery. The brains from
these animals were embedded in celloidin, cut in the coronal plane and the
following morphometric measures assessed: microgyric volume, medial
geniculate nucleus (MGN) volume, cell number, and cell size, and, as a
control, dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) volume, cell number and
cell size. There were no sex differences in the cortical pathology of
lesioned animals. However, microgyric males had more small and fewer large
neurons in the MGN than their sham-operated counterparts, whereas there was
no difference between lesioned and sham-operated females. There was no
effect on dLGN cell size distribution in either sex. Microgyric males were
significantly impaired in fast auditory temporal processing when compared
to control males, whereas lesioned females exhibited no behavioral
deficits. These results suggest that early injury to the cerebral cortex
may have different effects on specific thalamic nuclei in males and
females, with corresponding differences in behavioral effects.
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