Distribution of raphespinal fibers in the mouse spinal cord

Molecular Pain

George Paxinos³  Charles Watson²  Renee Whan¹  Richard Francis¹  Shaoshi Wang⁴  Huazheng Liang³ 

[1] Biomedical Imaging Facility, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, NSW, Australia;Health Sciences Dean Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Shenton Park Campus, Perth 6102, WA, Australia;School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, NSW, Australia;Department of Neurology, Branch of Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200081, China

关键词: Anterograde tracing;    CLARITY;    Raphespinal tract;    Spinal cord;    Serotonin;    Reticular nuclei;    Raphe nuclei;    Hindbrain;   

Others  :  1226134
DOI  :  10.1186/s12990-015-0046-x

 received in 2015-04-18, accepted in 2015-07-03,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Serotonergic raphespinal neurons and their fibers have been mapped in large mammals, but the non-serotonergic ones have not been studied, especially in the mouse. The present study aimed to investigate the termination pattern of fibers arising from the hindbrain raphe and reticular nuclei which also have serotonergic neurons by injecting the anterograde tracer BDA into them.

Results

We found that raphespinal fibers terminate in both the dorsal and ventral horns in addition to lamina 10. There is a shift of the fibers in the ventral horn towards the dorsal and lateral part of the gray matter. Considerable variation in the termination pattern also exists between raphe nuclei with raphe magnus having more fibers terminating in the dorsal horn. Fibers from the adjacent gigantocellular reticular nucleus show similar termination pattern as those from the raphe nuclei with slight difference. Immunofluorescence staining showed that raphespinal fibers were heterogeneous and serotoninergic fibers were present in all laminae but mainly in laminae 1, 2, medial lamina 8, laminae 9 and 10. Surprisingly, immunofluorescence staining on clarified spinal cord tissue revealed that serotoninergic fibers formed bundles regularly in a short distance along the rostrocaudal axis in the medial part of the ventral horn and they extended towards the lateral motor neuron column area.

Conclusion

Serotonergic and non-serotonergic fibers arising from the hindbrain raphe and reticular nuclei had similar termination pattern in the mouse spinal cord with subtle difference. The present study provides anatomical foundation for the multiple roles raphe and adjacent reticular nuclei play.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Liang et al.

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