Projections of the trapezoid body and the superior olivary complex of the Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami).

Brain, Behavior and Evolution
R H Browner, D B Webster

Abstract

Glass micropipettes filled with 2 M sodium cyanide were used to physiologically locate and iontophoretically damage the nucleus of the trapezoid body (NTB), the medial superior olive (MSO), and the lateral superior olive (LSO). Mechanical lesions were made in the trapezoid body as it leaves the cochlear nuclei. After a 3- to 10-day survival time the projections and terminal degeneration were traced with the Fink-Heimer and Nauta-Gygax stains. The ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN) projects via the trapezoid body to ipsilateral LSO, ipsilateral preolivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral and a contralateral medial dendritic fields of MSO, and contralateral NTB; there is also a small ipsilateral projection to the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus (VNLL) and the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (CNIC). Some trapezoid body fibers ascend via the contralateral lateral lemniscus to VNLL, DNLL (dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus), and CNIC. There is no projection from the ventral cochlear nucleus to the ipsilateral NTB and contralateral preolivary nuclei. All portions of NTB project ipsilaterally to LSO (ventral NTB to dorsomedial LSO, dorsal NTB to ventral LSO) and to the retro-olivary nucleus. In two animals with NTB les...Continue Reading

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