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Published on: July 19, 2012
Are retinal or mesencephalic dopaminergic systems involved in monocular optokinetic nystagmus asymmetry in frog?
1Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Biologie des Comportements, Centre de Neurochimie, CNRS UPR 419, Strasbourg, France.
Abstract:
In monocular vision, frogs display a unidirectional optokinetic horizontal nystagmus (H-OKN) reacting only to temporal-nasal (T-N) stimulation. The N-T component is almost absent. The analysis of search coil recordings after administration of dopamine into the viewing eye, the occluded eye or directly into the pretectum, hardly modifies the H-OKN triggered by the viewing eye irrespective of the concentration used. Conversely, administration of Piribedil, a strong D2 dopamine agonist, provokes the appearance of a N-T component, suppressing the monocular H-OKN asymmetry, whether the drug is injected by intravitreal or intrapretectal route. It is suggested that Piribedil could also bind with receptors other than dopamine's.

