A Golgi study of the ventral tegmental area of Tsai and interfascicular nucleus in the rat

The Journal of Comparative Neurology
O T Phillipson

Abstract

The ventral tegmental area of Tsai (VTA) and interfascicular nucleus of the adult rat brain has been studied with two variants of the Golgi method in three planes of section. Neurons were studied in relation to the cytoarchitectural groupings of the VTA. Dendritic organisation and dendritic fields were mapped out for each cytoarchitectural subgroup and cell types within each subgroup were classified on the basis of cell size and dendritic morphology. In each subnucleus of VTA, neurons had distinct characteristics. In nucleus paranigralis neurons were small to medium in size and their dendritic fields organised in an approximately horizontal plane orientated in an anteromedial direction and slanting dorsally over the interpeduncular nucleus and fossa. Neurons of the parabrachial group were small to medium sized with no preferential orientation. In nucleus linearis raphe caudalis small neurons were strongly orientated in the plane of the nucleus in a dorso-ventral direction slanting forwards. Neurons in the interfascicular group were small to very small and their maximum dendritic extents were seen in the horizontal plane. In frontal section they formed a compact ball of cells in the midline and were separated on either side from...Continue Reading

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