Takada M, Sugimoto T, Hattori T
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Neurosci Lett. 1993 Feb 5;150(1):61-4. doi: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90108-w.
Employing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemistry, we have revealed that TH immunoreactivity occurs in cerebellar Purkinje cells in the rat. These TH-immunoreactive Purkinje cells were distributed predominantly in the crus I & II ansiform lobules and the paraflocculus, and to a lesser extent in the I & X vermal lobules. Since Purkinje cells in such cerebellar regions displayed no immunoreactivity to dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, the TH-immunoreactive Purkinje cells identified in the present study might contain dopamine or L-DOPA.
