Pedunculopontine Nucleus

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

abbreviation: PPN

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 neurons provide a very useful guide to its borders and seem to predominate numerically.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-1998

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The position of this brain part in hierarchy was collated from the associated reference

Reference

Author: Swanson LW
Title of Book: Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain
Year: 1998
Pages: 196-213
Edition: second
Publisher: Elsevier