Demonstration of the corticotectobulbar pathway from the orofacial motor cortex to the parvicellular reticular formation in the rat

Brain Research
T TsumoriY Yasui

Abstract

We examined a corticotectobulbar pathway from the orofacial motor cortex (OfM) to the parvicellular reticular formation (RFp), where numerous premotor neurons for the orofacial motor nuclei were known to be distributed, light and electron microscopically by using a combination of anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques. After contralateral injections of biotinylated dextranamine (BDA) into the OfM and cholera toxin B subunit (CTb) into the RFp, the overlapping distribution of ipsilateral axon terminals labeled with BDA and contralateral neurons labeled with CTb was found in the lateralmost part of the superior colliculus (SC). Furthermore, contralateral injections of BDA into the OfM and wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) into the RFp resulted in that ipsilateral axons labeled with BDA made asymmetrical synaptic contacts with the dendrites of contralateral SC neurons labeled with WGA-HRP.

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