The rat parvocellular reticular formation: I. Afferents from the cerebellar nuclei.

The present report elucidates the location of the cells of origin of the cerebellar nuclear-parvocellular reticular projection in the rat. Injection of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the parvocellular reticular formation resulted in labeled neurons in the dorsolateral protuberance of the contralateral medial nucleus and bilaterally in the dorsolateral hump region and the large celled subgroup of the lateral nucleus. A small number of labelled cells were found in the middle part of the contralateral medial nucleus.

A quantitative analysis of the ipsilateral cerebellothalamic projection following hemicerebellectomy in neonatal rats. A retrograde HRP study.

Anatomical and physiological studies in adult rats following neonatal hemicerebellectomy reveal that the intact half of the cerebellum is capable of remodeling its connections to the ipsilateral thalamus. The present study investigates to what extent additional cerebellar neurons project to the ipsilateral thalamus in the remodeled pathway using a retrograde horseradish peroxidase (HRP) technique. Left hemicerebellectomies were performed on Sprague-Dawley rats within 24 h after birth.

Cerebello-olivary projections in the rat: an autoradiographic study.

The cerebello-olivary projection was studied in the albino rat using conventional autoradiographic techniques. The results indicated that the cerebello-olivary projection in the rat is topographically organized in a pattern similar to other mammalian species. The anterior interpositus projects to the dorsal accessory olive, the posterior interpositus to the medial accessory olive, and the dentate to both lamellae of the principal nucleus.

Cerebellothalamic projections in the rat: an autoradiographic and degeneration study.

The purpose of this study was to determine the topographical organization of cerebellothalamic projections in the rat. Following stereotaxic injections of 3H-leucine or electrolytic lesions in the cerebellar nuclei, efferent fibers were observed to emerge from the cerebellum through two discrete routes. Fibers from the fastigial nucleus decussated within the cerebellum, formed the crossed ascending limb of the uncinate fasciculus, ascended in the dorsal part of the midbrain tegmentum, and entered the thalamus.