title: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactivity in the afferents to the caudate-putamen and perirhinal cortex of rats.
abstract: The posterior caudate-putamen and perirhinal cortex are innervated by fibers immunoreactive to calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). We investigated the origins of these fibers by using immunohistochemistry combined with lesion experiments and fluorescent dye tracers. Lesions of the posterior thalamus surrounding the medial geniculate nucleus, in which groups of CGRP-like immunoreactive (CGRP-LI) cells exist, decreased the number of ipsilaterally CGRP-LI fibers in the posterior caudate-putamen and partly in the perirhinal cortex. Some of CGRP-LI neurons in several posterior thalamic nuclei surrounding the medial geniculate nucleus were labeled with both Fast blue injected into the posterior caudate-putamen and fluoro-gold administered into the anterior perirhinal cortex. Our results indicate that CGRP-LI cells in the posterior thalamus, such as posterior intralaminar, lateral subparafascicular and subparafascicular nuclei, project either separately or simultaneously to innervate the posterior caudate-putamen and perirhinal cortex.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Anatomy, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takagi
mesh_terms: D000578:Amidines; D000818:Animals; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D003078:Colchicine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007276:Injections, Intraventricular; D008297:Male; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000378:metabolism*; D011699:Putamen / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013266:Stilbamidines; D013788:Thalamus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: C049774:2-hydroxy-4,4'-diamidinostilbene, methanesulfonate salt; D000578:Amidines; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D013266:Stilbamidines; C031455:diamidino compound 253-50; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide; D003078:Colchicine