title: The medial paralemniscal nucleus and its afferent neuronal connections in rat.
abstract: Previously, we described a cell group expressing tuberoinfundibular peptide of 39 residues (TIP39) in the lateral pontomesencephalic tegmentum, and referred to it as the medial paralemniscal nucleus (MPL). To identify this nucleus further in rat, we have now characterized the MPL cytoarchitectonically on coronal, sagittal, and horizontal serial sections. Neurons in the MPL have a columnar arrangement distinct from adjacent areas. The MPL is bordered by the intermediate nucleus of the lateral lemniscus nucleus laterally, the oral pontine reticular formation medially, and the rubrospinal tract ventrally, whereas the A7 noradrenergic cell group is located immediately mediocaudal to the MPL. TIP39-immunoreactive neurons are distributed throughout the cytoarchitectonically defined MPL and constitute 75% of its neurons as assessed by double labeling of TIP39 with a fluorescent Nissl dye or NeuN. Furthermore, we investigated the neuronal inputs to the MPL by using the retrograde tracer cholera toxin B subunit. The MPL has afferent neuronal connections distinct from adjacent brain regions including major inputs from the auditory cortex, medial part of the medial geniculate body, superior colliculus, external and dorsal cortices of the inferior colliculus, periolivary area, lateral preoptic area, hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus, lateral and dorsal hypothalamic areas, subparafascicular and posterior intralaminar thalamic nuclei, periaqueductal gray, and cuneiform nucleus. In addition, injection of the anterograde tracer biotinylated dextran amine into the auditory cortex and the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus confirmed projections from these areas to the distinct MPL. The afferent neuronal connections of the MPL suggest its involvement in auditory and reproductive functions.
authors.affiliation: Neuromorphological and Neuroendocrine Research Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Semmelweis University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Varga
authors.forename: Miklós
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palkovits
authors.forename: Ted Björn
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Usdin
authors.forename: Arpád
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dobolyi
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D011149:Pons / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013194:Staining and Labeling
chemical_list: D002772:Cholera Toxin
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