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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 1, 2001, 21(19):7715-7723
The Entire Trajectories of Single Olivocerebellar Axons in the Cerebellar Cortex and their Contribution to Cerebellar Compartmentalization
I. Sugihara1, H.-S. Wu1, 2, and Y. Shinoda1, 2 1 Department of Systems Neurophysiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-8519, Japan, and 2 The Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan
The functional partitioning of the cerebellar cortex depends on the projection patterns of its afferent and efferent neurons. However, the entire morphology of individual projection neurons has been demonstrated in only a few classes of neurons in the vertebrate CNS. To investigate the contribution of the projection pattern of individual olivocerebellar axons to the cerebellar functional compartmentalization, we labeled individual olivocerebellar axons, which terminate in the cerebellar cortex as climbing fibers, with biotinylated dextran amine injected into the inferior olive in the rat, and completely reconstructed the entire trajectories of 34 olivocerebellar axons from serial sections of the cerebellum and medulla. Single axons had seven climbing fibers on average, which terminated at similar distances from the midline in a single or in multiple lobules. Cortical projection areas of adjacent olivary neurons were clustered as narrow but separate longitudinal segments and often innervated by collaterals of single neurons. Comparison of the cerebellar distribution of olivocerebellar axons arising from different sites within a single olivary subnucleus indicated that slightly distant neurons projected to complementary sets of such segments in a single longitudinal band. Several of these longitudinal bands formed a so-called parasagittal zone innervated by a subnucleus of the inferior olive. Single olivocerebellar axons projected rostrocaudally to segments within a single band but did not project mediolaterally to multiple bands. These results suggest fine substructural organization in the cerebellar compartmentalization that may represent functional units.
Key words: climbing fibers; biotinylated dextran amine; inferior olive; rats; cerebellar cortex; cerebellum; afferent neurons; neural pathways; neuroanatomy; brain mapping
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