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Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 9, No. 7, 733-744, October 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Experimental Microgyri Disrupt the Barrel Field Pattern in Rat Somatosensory Cortex

Kimberle M. Jacobs, Monique Mogensen, Elisabeth Warren and David A. Prince

Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Transcranial freeze lesions in neonatal rat pups produce microgyri and adjacent epileptogenic regions of neocortex that can be used to model human polymicrogyria. The hypothesis that the presence of microgyri is associated with abnormal cortical organization occurring within as well as adjacent to the microgyri was tested by creating microgyri within the face representation of somatosensory cortex. Microgyri were associated with a widespread disruption of the stereotypic whisker barrel field pattern delineated with cytochrome oxidase (CO) staining. CO-stained patches resembling barrel hollows were absent within the microgyrus, and were abnormally shaped and distributed outside of the microgyrus. Adjacent Nisslor acetylcholinesterase-stained sections demonstrated that both cell clusters and thalamocortical afferents contributed to the abnormally organized paramicrogyral zone identified in CO-stained sections. Field potential recordings showed that this region of heavy CO staining corresponded to the epileptogenic zone adjacent to the microgyrus. Results support our hypothesis that the epileptogenic paramicrogyral zone develops an abnormal organization of cell clusters and thalamocortical projections that could contribute to epileptogenesis in the paramicrogyral zone.


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