Afferent projections to the rat locus coeruleus demonstrated by retrograde and anterograde tracing with cholera-toxin B subunit and Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin

Luppi P.H., Aston-Jones G., Akaoka H., Chouvet and Jouvet M.
Neuroscience (1995) Vol:65 Tome:1 pp:119-160
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Material and methods
RESULTS

I. Cytoarchitecture of the locus coeruleus area

II. Afferent projections to the locus coeruleus

A) Retrograde tracing experiments

B) Anterograde tracing experiments

Discussion
FIGURES

Figure 2A

Illustration of a CTb injection site in the rat LC+periLC (RLC2, 600µm in di ameter). Note that this site covered the entire LC and also involved the lamina and the periaqueductal gray between the LC and the fourth ventricle and part of the MVe area just lateral to the LC.