Pedunculopontine Nucleus

Hierarchy level in atlas is 5: 4 superstructures include it.

abbreviation: PPN

Abbreviation

PPN

Species

Rat

Description of part

Jacobsohn 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 61); the region outlined here contains all of the cells identified earlier in the PPN (Jacobsohn 1909; Olszewski and Baxter 1954), although cholinergic neurons provide a very useful guide to its borders and seem to predominate numerically.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-2004

Endorsement

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

Reference

Author: Swanson L.W.
Title of Book: Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. Third Edition
Year: 2004
Pages: 166-179
Edition: third
Publisher: Elsevier