I'm stuck on some basic mouse anatomy for a project I'm doing looking at descending motor pathways that are involved in forelimb function. I'm trying to figure out if the medullary reticular formation in the mouse brain contains the lateral reticular nucleus. I'm also trying to tease apart which areas contain the gigantocellular, parvoceullar, and magnocellular areas.
I am not an expert in mice's neuroanatomy of CNS, but I am pretty sure that this nucleus is part of MRF both in the rats and in mice because the anatomy of the LRN in mammals is largely conserved, and in the past I have studied the serotoninergic modulation of neuronal spontaneous electrical activity of LRN in rats as part of MRF.
Yes it is considered part of the MRF. For one of the best description of the various regions of the reticular formation see Neurological Anatomy in Relation to Clinical Medicine (1981) by Alf Brodal.
Terminations of reticulospinal fibers originating from the gigantocellular reticular formation in the mouse spinal cord.
I think, this is a good reference for your question.
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