High-resolution paraventricular nucleus serial section model constructed within a traditional rat brain atlas.

ABSTRACT: As a starting point for constructing a high-resolution, resliceable computer graphics model for the extraction, quantitative analysis, display, and modeling of neuroanatomical data the outer border and the boundaries of inner divisions and parts of the paraventricular nucleus have been drawn for all 39 serial histological sections prepared for a published reference atlas of the rat brain. This careful parceling revealed three new features of paraventricular nucleus topography: the full rostral extent of the anterior parvicellular part, the caudal end of the medial magnocellular part, and a thin rostrolateral extension of the dorsal medial parvicellular part composed at least in part of neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone. The vector graphics drawings were aligned using the a

SUBMITTER: Simmons DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2478755 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature