title: Golgi study on neurons and fibers in Nucl. rotundus of the thalamus in chicks.
abstract: The structural arrangement of nucleus rotundus was studied by Golgi method. Large, multiangular principal neurons, their dendrites and dendritic terminals were observed. The long dendrites and their side-branches course parallel and/or perpendicular to each-other and they are arranged about in dorso-ventral latero-medial and rostro-caudal directions. The dendrites and their side-branches develop characteristic terminal branchings. These dendritic terminals overlap each-other and the area is called dendritic terminal field. The tecto-rotundal fibers traverse the nucleus in large bundles and the final sections of fibers join to the dendrites of principal neuron and terminate in dendritic terminal fields.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Thin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Egedy
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tömböl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D003712:Dendrites / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D007395:Interneurons / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009411:Nerve Endings / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000502:physiology*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology*; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid