Distinct adenosine deaminase-containing inputs to the substantia nigra from the striatum and tuberomammillary nucleus

Brain Research
T YamamotoJ I Nagy

Abstract

Immunohistochemical, neuroanatomical and lesion methods were used to investigate the projections of adenosine deaminase immunoreactive (ADA-IR) neurons in the striatum (caudate/putamen) and hypothalamus to the substantia nigra (SN). Striatal ADA-IR neurons were distributed within two zones; anteriorly in the medial and ventromedial extreme of the head and body of the striatum, and posteriorly in the tail of the striatum. The posterior hypothalamus contained ADA-positive neurons which were confined to the tuberomammillary nucleus (TM). The SN was devoid of ADA-positive neurons, but contained two distinct types of ADA-IR fiber terminations. One type was confined to bands located at the ventrolateral and dorsomedial borders of the pars reticulata and consisted of fine puncta. The other type was distributed throughout the SN and consisted of long, beaded fibers. Injections of the retrograde tracer Fluoro-gold (FG) into the SN gave rise to FG-labelling of significant numbers of ADA-IR neurons in both the striatum and TM. Medial SN injections preferentially labelled ADA-IR neurons in the anterior striatum and lateral SN injections labelled posterior ADA-IR striatal neurons. Kainic acid lesions of the anterior medial striatum selectiv...Continue Reading

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