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Cerebral Cortex Advance Access published online on July 6, 2004
Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh109
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A Study of Pyramidal Cell Structure in the Cingulate Cortex of the Macaque Monkey with Comparative Notes on Inferotemporal and Primary Visual Cortex

Guy N. Elston 1*, Ruth Benavides-Piccione 2, Javier DeFelipe 2

1 Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
2 Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Avda Dr Arce, 37, 28002, Madrid, Spain

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: g.elston{at}vthrc.uq.edu.au.


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Recent studies have revealed a marked degree of variation in the pyramidal cell phenotype in visual, somatosensory, motor and prefrontal cortical areas in the brain of different primates, which are believed to subserve specialized cortical function. In the present study we carried out comparisons of dendritic structure of layer III pyramidal cells in the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex and compared their structure with those sampled from inferotemporal cortex (IT) and the primary visual area (V1) in macaque monkeys. Cells were injected with Lucifer Yellow in flat-mounted cortical slices, and processed for a light-stable DAB reaction product. Size, branching pattern, and spine density of basal dendritic arbors was determined, and somal areas measured. We found that pyramidal cells in anterior cingulate cortex were more branched and more spinous than those in posterior cingulate cortex, and cells in both anterior and posterior cingulate were considerably larger, more branched, and more spinous than those in area V1. These data show that pyramidal cell structure differs between posterior dysgranular and anterior granular cingulate cortex, and that pyramidal neurons in cingulate cortex have different structure to those in many other cortical areas. These results provide further evidence for a parallel between structural and functional specialization in cortex.

Keywords: association; cognition; dendritic spine; emotion; intracellular injection; Lucifer Yellow; Sholl.
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