Laminar distribution of sources of ascending spinocerebral fiber systems in the cat spinal cord

Autor: Kebkalo, T. G., Maiskii, V. A., Oleshko, N. N., Savos'kina, L. A.
Zdroj: Neurophysiology; September 1979, Vol. 11 Issue: 5 p333-341, 9p
Abstrakt: The location of labeled neurons that are sources of ascending crossed and uncrossed supraspinal fiber systems was studied in the laminae of gray matter of the spinal cord in 18 cats by the retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase method. Neurons in the lateral zones of the dorsal horn were shown to make direct, and cells in neighboring regions indirect (through relay nuclei of the dorsal columns) connections with the contralateral thalamus. In the lower segments of the spinal cord sources of crossed spinoreticular and spinothalamic fiber systems are located in the medial regions of the ventral horn and lateral zones of the lateral basilar region. Some large neurons in the motor nuclei were shown to send their axons into the lateral reticular nucleus of the medulla. On the basis of the results a scheme of the laminar organization of sources of ascending fiber systems in the cat spinal cord is constructed.
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