Brainstem afferents to the tuberomammillary nucleus in the rat brain with special reference to monoaminergic innervation
- 8 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Comparative Neurology
- Vol. 281 (2), 169-192
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.902810203
Abstract
Monoaminergic innervation of a histamine‐producing cell group, the tuberomammillary nucleus in the posterior hypothalamus, was investigated in the rat by light and electron microscopic immunohistochemical techniques. Immunohistochemical staining of sections of the posterior hypothalamus was demonstrated afferent fibers immunoreactive to tyrosine hydroxylase in ventral and medial subgroups of the tuberomammillary nucleus afferent fibers immunoreactive to tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine‐ßhydroxylase (DBH), phenyletanolamineNmetyltransferase (PNMT), and serotonin (5‐HT). TH‐ and DBH‐immunoreactive fibers were similar and were evenly and densely distributed throughout the tuberomammillary nucleus. Fibers stained with 5‐HT antibodies were also present throughout the tuberomammillary nucleus but exhibited the densest labeling in the dendritic layer adjacent to the glia limitans in the ventral subgroup. Innervation by PNMT‐immunoreactive axons was sparse. Electron microscopic analysis of TH−, DBH−, and 5‐HT‐immunoreactive fibers in the tuberomammillary nucleus revealed vesicle‐containing terminal boutons, which formed synapses with dendrites of varying size. Synaptic contacts with nerve cell bodies were not found. Retrograde transport of the fluorescent dye Fast Blue injected into the tuberomammillary nucleus, combined with immunofluorescent staining with anti‐TH, anti‐DBH, anti‐PNMT, and anti‐5‐HT antibodies, showed that monoaminergic input to the tuberomammillary nucleus originated mainly from the adrenergic and noradrenergic cell groups C1C3 and A1‐A2, respectively, and from the serotoninergic cell groups B5‐B9 as designated by Dahlström and Fuxe ('65). Few double‐labeled neurons were found in the nucleus locus coeruleus and the dopaminergic cell groups of the rostral brain stem. The present findings suggest that the activity of the histamine‐producing neurons of the tuberomammillary nucleus is influenced by monoaminergic neurons in the ventrolateral and dorsomedial medulla oblongata and the raphe nuclei of the rostral brainstem.Keywords
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