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Distribution of calcium-binding proteins parvalbumin and calbindin in the thalamic auditory center in pigeons

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Distribution of calcium-binding proteins (CaBPr) parvalbumin (PV) and calbindin (CB) in the thalamic auditory center (nucleus ovoidalis, Ov) was studied in the pigeon (Columba livia). Two parts of Ov were distinguished on the basis of their cytoarchitectonics and distribution of PV and CB immunoreactivity. The central lemniscal region (core, nCe) contains both dense PV-ir neuropil and PV-ir neurons overlapped with scant CB-ir neuropil and weaker stained CB-ir neurons. The peripheral extralemniscal region (belt), consisting of peri/paraovoidal nuclei (Ovl, Ovm, SPO), contains only CB-ir neuropil and strongly stained CB-ir neurons morphologically differing from CB-ir neurons in the nCe. A comparative analysis of our data on the distribution of PV and CB immunoreactivity in the thalamic auditory relay center in pigeons and related literature data obtained on other avian, reptilian and mammalian species indicates high evolutionary conservatism of its extralemniscal region across all sauropside amniotеs and mammals in contrast to plasticity of its central lemniscal region due to adaptive, ecologically dependent transformations during the evolution.

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Abbreviations

CaBPr:

calcium-binding proteins

CB:

calbindin

CO:

cytochrome oxidase

DMP:

nucleus dorsomedialis posterior

ir:

immunoreactive

MGB:

corpus geniculatus medialis

MLD:

nucleus mesencephalicus lateralis, pars dorsalis

L:

telencephalic auditory field

L2:

central lamina of Field L

L1, L3:

peripheral laminae of Field L

nCe:

nucleus centralis Ov

Ov:

nucleus ovoidalis

Ovl:

nucleus lateralis Ov

Ovm:

nucleus medialis Ov

PV:

parvalbumin

Rot:

nucleus rotundus

SPO:

nucleus semilunaris paraovoidalis

SRt:

nucleus subrotundus

tOv:

tractus ovoidalis

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    M. G. Belekhova, T. V. Chudinova & N. B. Kenigfest

  2. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle USM-0501, Paris, France

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Original Russian Text © M.G. Belekhovа, T.V. Chudinova, N.B. Kenigfest, 2016, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 429—435.

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Belekhova, M.G., Chudinova, T.V. & Kenigfest, N.B. Distribution of calcium-binding proteins parvalbumin and calbindin in the thalamic auditory center in pigeons. J Evol Biochem Phys 52, 482–489 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1234567816060070

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