AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF COMMISSURAL AND IPSILATERAL ASSOCIATION CONNECTIONS OF HIPPOCAMPUS AND DENTATE GYRUS OF RAT .1. COMMISSURAL CONNECTIONS
AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF COMMISSURAL AND IPSILATERAL ASSOCIATION CONNECTIONS OF HIPPOCAMPUS AND DENTATE GYRUS OF RAT .1. COMMISSURAL CONNECTIONS
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.901490402
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
COWAN, WM
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作者:
GOTTLIEB, DI;COWAN, WM
The commissural connections of the two major cytoarchitectonic fields of the hippocampus (fields CA1and CA3) and of the dentate gyrus of the rat have been studied autoradiographically following injections of3H‐leucine into the contralateral hippocampal formation.The commissural projection to thedentate gyrushas its origin in the hilar region of the gyrus of the opposite side (probably from the pyramidal cells of subfield CA3c) and the majority of its fibers terminate upon a restricted segment of the granule cell dendrites (about 30 μ wide) in the inner one‐third of the molecular layer. Like the ipsilateral association pathway to this region, the commissural projection has an extensive distribution along the septo‐temporal axis of the gyrus. The commissural connections offield CA3appear to be organized homotopically in the sense that each of its subfields seems to be related principally (if not exclusively) to the corresponding subfield on the opposite side. However, along the septo‐temporal axis of the hippocampal formation the commissural projection seems to be much more widespread, so that isotope injections into this field at any one level always give rise to transported label over a considerable rostro‐caudal extent on the opposite side. Within field CA3the commissural terminals are confined to the region of the basal dendrites in thestratum oriens, and the middle portion of the apical dendrites in thestratum radiatum. Field CA1does not appear to contribute to the commissural system: this is certainly true of its anterior portion which projects into the dorsal fornix rather than the fimbria, and may also hold for the posterior part of the field. Most, if not all, of the commissural fibers to field CA1have their origin in field CA3of the opposite side. After crossing the midline in the ventral hippocampal commissure, these fibers follow an intrahippocampal course which appears to parallel that of the Schaffer collateral system. Within field CA1the crossed fibers terminate in relation to the basal dendrites and the proximal three‐fourths of the apical dendrites in thestratum oriensand thestratum radiatum.