The central projection of masticatory afferent fibers to the trigeminal sensory nuclear complex and upper cervical spinal cord

Journal of Comparative Neurology - Tập 268 Số 4 - Trang 489-507 - 1988
Yoshio Shigenaga1, Masayuki Sera2, Toshikazu Nishimori2, Setsuko Suemune2, Masao Nishimura2, Atsushi Yoshida2, Koichiro Tsuru2
1Department of Oral Anatomy (1st Division), Hiroshima University School of Dentistry, Japan.
2Department of Oral Anatomy (1st Division), Hiroshima University School of Dentistry, Hiroshima 734, Japan

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AbstractRetrograde and anterograde transport of horseradish peroxidase‐wheat germ agglutinin (HRP‐WGA) conjugate was used to study the organization of primary afferent neurons innervating the masticatory muscles. HRP applied to the nerves of jaw‐closing muscles–the deep temporal (DT), masseter (Ma), and medial pterygoid (MP)–labeled cells in the trigeminal ganglion and the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (Vmes), whereas HRP applied to nerves of the jaw‐opening muscles–anterior digastric (AD) and mylohyoid (My)–labeled cells only in the trigeminal ganglion. Cell bodies innervating the jaw‐closing muscles were found with greater frequency in the intermediate region of the mandibular subdivision, while somata supplying the jaw‐opening muscles were predominant posterolaterally. The distribution of their somatic sizes was unimodal and limited to a subpopulation of smaller cells. Projections of the muscle afferents of ganglionic origin to the trigeminal sensory nuclear complex (TSNC) were confined primarily to the caudal half of pars interpolaris (Vi), and the medullary and upper cervical dorsal horns. In the Vi, Ma, MP, AD, and My nerves terminated in the lateral‐most part of the nucleus with an extensive overlap in projections, save for the DT nerve, which projected to the interstitial nucleus or paratrigeminal nucleus. In the medullary and upper cervical dorsal horns, the main terminal fields of individual branches were confined to laminae I/V, but the density of the terminals in lamina V was very sparse. The rostrocaudal extent of the terminal field in lamina I differed among the muscle afferents of origin, whereas in the mediolateral or dorsoventral axis, a remarkable overlap in projections was noted between or among muscle afferents. The terminals of DT afferents were most broadly extended from the rostral level of the pars caudalis to the C3 segment, whereas the MP nerve showed limited projection to the middle one‐third of the pars caudalis. Terminal fields of the Ma, AD, and My nerves appeared in the caudal two‐thirds of the pars caudalis including the first two cervical segments, the caudal half of the pars caudalis and the C1 segment, and in the caudal part of the pars caudalis including the rostral C1 segment, respectively. This rostrocaudal arrangement in the projections of muscle nerves, which corresponds to the anteroposterior length of the muscles and their positions, indicates that representation of the masticatory muscles in lamina I reflects an onion‐skin organization. These results suggest that primary muscle afferent neurons of ganglionic origin primarily mediate muscle pain. In addition, the distribution patterns of the afferent neurons of jaw‐closing muscles in the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (Vmes) and their central projections were examined. The Vmes neurons from the DT and Ma nerves were bimo‐dally distributed, with larger numbers in the rostra1 half of the nucleus, whereas those from the MP nerve were sparsely and evenly distributed. Individual central axons of the Vmes neurons innervating the three jaw‐closing muscles projected to the trigeminal motor nucleus (Vmo), supra‐ and intertrigeminal regions, and lateral reticular formation of the medulla extending to the upper spinal cord. There were, however, differences in the caudal extent of the axons from the different muscles.

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Journal of Comparative Neurology

Tập 268 Số 4

489-507

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