The Location of the Major Ascending and Descending Spinal Cord Tracts in all Spinal Cord Segments in the Mouse: Actual and Extrapolated

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1692-1697

  Watson, Charles ^a,b   Harrison, Megan ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticospinal; Mouse; Spinal cord; Spinocerebellar; Spinothalamic; Tracts; Vestibulospinal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; ARTICLE; CAUDAL RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; DESCENDING SPINAL CORD TRACT; DORSAL SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; DORSOLATERAL SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; GRACILE NUCLEUS; LATERAL SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; LATERAL VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT; MAJOR ASCENDING SPINAL CORD TRACT; MEDIAL VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DORSAL COLUMN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; ROSTRAL RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; VENTRAL SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT;

ANIMALS; CATS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL TRACTS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MICE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866148519     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22549     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Apkarian AV, Hodge CJ. 1989. Primate spinothalamic pathways: II. The cells of origin of the dorsolateral and ventral spinothalamic pathways. J Comp Neurol 288: 474-492.
2. Capecchi MR. 1989. The new mouse genetics: altering the genome by gene targeting. Trends Genet 5: 70-76.
3. Capecchi MR. 2005. Essay: gene targeting in mice: functional analysis of the mammalian genome for the twenty-first century. Nat Rev Genet 6: 507-512.
4. Davidson S, Truong H, Giesler GJ, Jr. 2010. A quantitative analysis of spinothalamic tract neurons in adult and developing mouse. J Comp Neurol 518: 3193-3204.
5. Friehs GM, Schrottner O, Pendl G. 1995. Evidence for the segregated pain and temperature conduction within the spinothalamic tract. J Neurosurg 83: 8-12.
6. Giesler GJ, Jr., Nahin RL, Madsen AM. 1984. Postsynaptic dorsal column pathway of the rat. I. Anatomical studies. J Neurophysiol 51: 260-275.
7. Holmes GM, Van Meter MJ, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC. 2005. Serotonergic fiber sprouting to external anal sphincter motoneurons after spinal cord contusion. Exp Neurol 193: 29-42.
8. Kayalioglu G. 2009. Projections from the spinal cord to the brain. In: Watson C, Paxinos G, Kayalioglu G, editors. The spinal cord. A Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Text and Atlas. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p 148-167.
9. Kemp TS. 1980. Origin of the mammal-like reptiles. Nature 283: 378-380.
10. Liang H, Paxinos G, Watson C. 2011. Projections from the brain to the spinal cord in the mouse. Brain Struct Funct 215: 159-186.
11. Liang H, Paxinos G, Watson C. 2012a. Projections from the presumptive midbrain locomotor area to the spinal cord in the mouse. Brain Struct Funct 217: 211-219.
12. Liang H, Paxinos G, Watson C. 2012b. The red nucleus and rubrospinal tract in the mouse. Brain Struct Funct 217: 221-232.
13. Nathan PW, Smith M, Deacon P. 1996. Vestibulospinal, reticulospinal and descending propriospinal nerve fibres in man. Brain 119: 1809-1833.
14. Nyberg-Hansen R. 1965. Sites and mode of termination of reticulo-spinal fibers in the cat. J Comp Neurol 124: 71-100.
15. Nyberg-Hansen R, Brodal A. 1965. Sites and mode of termination of rubrospinal fibres in the cat. J Anat 98: 235-253.
16. Nyberg-Hansen R, Mascitti TA. 1964. Sites and mode of termination of fibers of the vestibulospinal tract in the cat. J Comp Neurol 122: 369-383.
17. Paxinos G, Watson C. 2007. The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p xiii-xxviii.
18. Porrero C, Rubio-Garrido P, Avendaño C, Clascá F. 2010. Mapping of fluorescent protein-expressing neurons and axon pathways in adult and developing Thy1-eYFP-H transgenic mice. Brain Res 1345: 59-72.
19. Sengul G, Watson C. 2012. Spinal cord. In: Watson C, Paxinos G, Puelles L, editors. The mouse nervous system. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p 423-457.
20. Stevens RT, Apkarian AV, Hodge CJ. 1991. The location of spinothalamic axons within spinal cord white matter in cat and squirrel monkey. Somatosens Mot Res 8: 97-102.
21. Terman JR, Wang XM, Martin GF. 1998. Origin, course and laterality of spinocerebellar axons in the North American opossum, Didelphis virginiana. Anat Rec 251: 528-554.
22. Verhaart WJC. 1962. The pyramidal tract. Structure and function in man and animals. World Neurol 3: 43-53.
23. Watson C, Harvey AR. 2009. Projections from the brain to the spinal cord. In: Watson C, Paxinos G, Kayalioglu G, editors. The spinal cord. A Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Text and Atlas. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p 168-179.
24. Watson C, Paxinos G, Kayalioglu G, Heise C. 2009. Atlas of the mouse spinal cord. In: Watson C, Paxinos G, Kayalioglu G, editors. The spinal cord. A Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Text and Atlas. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p 308-379.
25. Watson C, Paxinos G, Puelles L, editors. 2012. The Mouse Nervous System. SanDiego: Elsevier Academic Press.
26. Whitlock DG. 1952. A neurohistological and neurophysiological study of afferent fiber tracts and receptive areas of the avian cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 97: 567-635.
27. Wild JM. 1985. The avian somatosensory system. I. Primary spinal afferent input to the spinal cord and brainstem in the pigeon (Columba livia). J Comp Neurol 240: 377-395.
28. Wild MJ, Cabot JB, Cohen DH, Karten HJ. 1979. Origin, course and terminations of the rubrospinal tract in the pigeon (Columba livia). J Comp Neurol 187: 639-654.
29. Xu G, Grant G. 1994. Course of the spinocerebellar axons in the ventral and lateral funiculi of the spinal cord with projections to the anterior lobe: an experimental study in the cat with retrograde tracing techniques. J Comp Neurol 345: 288-302.
30. Zhang X, Honda CN, Giesler GJ. 2000a. Position of spinothalamic tract axons in upper cervical spinal cord of monkeys. J Neurophysiol 84: 1180-1185.
31. Zhang X, Wenk HN, Honda CN, Giesler GJ. 2000b. Location of spinothalamic tract axons in cervical and thoracic spinal cord white matter in monkeys. J Neurophysiol 83: 2689-2880.