Abbreviation

PPN

Species

Rat

Description of part

According to Jacobsonh 1909, Olszewski and Baxter 1954, Rye et al. 1987. , Rye et al. (1987) regard the subpopulation of cholinergic neurons in this region as the pedunculopontine nucleus (see note 62), the region outlined here contains all the cells identified earlier in the PPN (Jacobson 1909, Olszewski and Baxter, 1954), although cholinergic neurosn provide a very useful guide to its borders and seem to predominate numerically.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-1992

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The hierarchy was constructed and adapted according to the information found in the Rat Brain Atlas, Swanson 1992. We have considered three types of brain structures: grisea (neural masses), fiber tracts, and ventricles. The hierarchical tree was constructed by taking into account two criteria: the set of classes and subclasses of the basic cell groups and fiber systems of the rat CNS and the topological positions of structures relative to superstructures.

Reference

Pedunculopontine nucleus - Rat - Swanson-1998
Pedunculopontine nucleus - Rat - Swanson-2004
Pedunculopontine nucleus - Mouse - Dong-2007