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  • Title: An ultrastructural study of the projections from the midbrain periaqueductal gray to spinally projecting, serotonin-immunoreactive neurons of the medullary nucleus raphe magnus in the rat.
    Author: Lakos S, Basbaum AI.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1988 Mar 08; 443(1-2):383-8. PubMed ID: 3282614.
    Abstract:
    In this triple-label, electron microscopic study in the rat, a lesion of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) was made so that the distribution and targets of degenerating PAG terminals could be identified in the medullary nucleus raphe magnus (NRM). Spinally projecting NRM neurons were identified by the retrograde transport of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase from the cervical cord. We also used immunocytochemistry to define the subpopulation of NRM neurons which were serotonin-immunoreactive. We report that both serotonergic and non-serotonergic neurons of the medulla, which project to the spinal cord, receive monosynaptic inputs from the PAG.
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