Han Victor Z, Meek Johannes, Campbell Holly R, Bell Curtis C
Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA.
J Comp Neurol. 2006 Jul 20;497(3):309-25. doi: 10.1002/cne.20983.
The cerebellum of mormyrid electric fish is large and unusually regular in its histological structure. We have examined the morphology of cellular elements in the central lobes of the mormyrid cerebellum. We have used intracellular injection of biocytin to determine the morphology of cells with somas in the cortex, and we have used extracellular placement of anterograde tracers in the inferior olive to label climbing fibers. Our results confirm previous Golgi studies and extend them by providing a more complete description of axonal trajectories. Most Purkinje cells in mormyrids and other actinopterygian fishes are interneurons that terminate locally in the cortex on efferent neurons that are equivalent to cerebellar nucleus cells in mammals. We confirm the markedly sagittal distribution of the fan-like dendrites of Purkinje cells, efferent cells, and molecular layer interneurons. We show that Purkinje cell axons extend further than was previously thought in the sagittal plane. We show that climbing fibers are distributed in narrow sagittal strips and that these fibers terminate exclusively in the ganglionic layer below the molecular layer where parallel fibers terminate. Our results together with those of others show that the central lobes of the mormyrid cerebellum, similar to the mammalian cerebellum, are composed of sagittally oriented modules made up of Purkinje cells, climbing fibers, molecular layer interneurons, and cerebellar efferent cells (cerebellar nucleus cells in mammals) that Purkinje cells inhibit. This modular organization is more apparent and more sharply defined in the mormyrid than in the mammal.
裸臀鱼科电鱼的小脑很大,其组织学结构异常规则。我们研究了裸臀鱼科小脑中央叶细胞成分的形态。我们使用生物胞素的细胞内注射来确定皮质中胞体的细胞形态,并且我们使用在下橄榄核中顺行示踪剂的细胞外放置来标记攀缘纤维。我们的结果证实了先前的高尔基研究,并通过提供更完整的轴突轨迹描述对其进行了扩展。裸臀鱼科和其他辐鳍鱼类中的大多数浦肯野细胞是中间神经元,它们在皮质中局部终止于与哺乳动物小脑核细胞等效的传出神经元上。我们证实了浦肯野细胞、传出细胞和分子层中间神经元的扇形树突明显呈矢状分布。我们表明浦肯野细胞轴突在矢状平面上的延伸比以前认为的更远。我们表明攀缘纤维分布在狭窄的矢状条带中,并且这些纤维仅终止于分子层下方的神经节层,平行纤维也在此处终止。我们的结果与其他人的结果共同表明,裸臀鱼科小脑的中央叶与哺乳动物小脑相似,由矢状排列的模块组成,这些模块由浦肯野细胞、攀缘纤维、分子层中间神经元和浦肯野细胞抑制的小脑传出细胞(哺乳动物中的小脑核细胞)组成。这种模块化组织在裸臀鱼科中比在哺乳动物中更明显且定义更清晰。