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 24AB

Figure 24a

Figure 24b

Color darkfield photomicrographs of frontal sections respectively at the level of Barrington's nucleus (A) and the LC (B) showing the presence of anterogradely labeled fibers in these nuclei after the PHAL injection in the nucleus Kolliker-Fuse shown in Fig. 5B