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By retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase the reticulocerebellar projections were examined in twenty-six rabbits.
After injections in the cerebellum retrogradely labeled neurons were more numerous in the caudal reticular formation (ventral and gigantocellular reticular nuclei) than in its rostral part (caudal and oral pontine reticular nuclei). The labeled cells were of all sizes, large, medium-sized and small. Giant cells were labeled only after injections in the posterior lobe vermis.
After injections in the anterior lobe, the posterior vermis, the fastigial nucleus and the flocculus, retrogradely labeled neurons were found bilaterally in the ventral reticular nucleus, the gigantocellular reticular nucleus and the caudal pontine reticular nucleus. Some cases with posterior vermal and fastigial injections in addition showed labeled neurons bilaterally in the oral pontine reticular nucleus. There were no major side differences. The cases with injections in the anterior part of the paramedian lobule gave rise to only a few labeled cells in the gigantocellular reticular nucleus.
Negative findings were consistently made in the mesencephalic reticular formation.
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Tang, Z., Zhang, S. The cerebellar projection from the reticular formation of the brain stem in the rabbit. Anat Embryol 175, 521–526 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309687
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