The Mammalian Cochlear Nuclei

The cellular basis for signal processing in the mammalian cochlear nuclei.- I. Developmental Issues.- Cell birth, formation of efferent connections, and establishment of tonotopic order in the rat cochlear nucleus.- Postnatal development of auditory nerve projections to the cochlear nucleus in Monodelphis Domestica.- II. Primary Inputs.- Anatomical and physiological studies of type I and type II spiral ganglion neurons.- Topographic organization of inner hair cell synapses and cochlear spiral ganglion projections to the ventral cochlear nucleus.- Ultrastructural analysis of synaptic endings of auditory nerve fibers in cats: correlations with spontaneous discharge rate.- III. Intrinsic Connections.- Intrinsic connections in the cochlear nuclear complex studied in vitro and in vivo.- The synaptic organization of the ventral cochlear nucleus of the cat: the peripheral cap of small cells.- Alterations in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of cerebellar mutant mice.- IV. Descending Projections.- Non-cochlear projections to the ventral cochlear nucleus: are they mainly inhibitory?.- Non-primary inputs to the cochlear nucleus visualized using immunocytochemistry.- Superior olivary cells with descending projections to the cochlear nucleus.- Descending projections from the inferior colliculus to the cochlear nuclei in mammals.- V.- Neurotransmitters of the Cochlear Nucleus.- Localizing putative excitatory endings in the cochlear nucleus by quantitative immunocytochemistry.- Excitatory amino acid receptors in the rat cochlear nucleus.- Glycine and GABA: transmitter candidates of projections descending to the cochlear nucleus.- Inhibitory amino acid synapses and pathways in the ventral cochlear nucleus.- Glycinergic inhibition in the cochlear nuclei: evidence for tuberculoventral neuronsbeing glycinergic.- GABA and glycine inputs control discharge rate within the excitatory response area of primary-like and phase-locked AVCN neurons.- Neuropharmacological and neurophysiological