RT Journal Article
T1 Somatotopy of the Neurons Innervating the Cricothyroid, Posterior Cricoarytenoid, and Thyroarytenoid Muscles of the Rat’s Larynx
A1 Hernández-Morato, Ignacio
A1 Pascual-Font, Arán
A1 Ramírez, Carlos
A1 Matarranz-Echeverría, Jorge
A1 McHanwell, Stephen
A1 Sañudo, Jorge R.
A1 Valderrama-Canales, Francisco J.
A1 Vázquez Osorio, María Teresa
AB Neurons innervating the intrinsic muscles of the larynx are locatedwithin the nucleus ambiguus but the precise distribution of the neurons for each muscle is still a matter for debate. The purpose of this study was to finely determine the position and the number of the neurons innervat- ing the intrinsic laryngeal muscles cricothyroid, posterior cricoarytenoid, and thyroarytenoid in the rat. The study was carried out in a total of 28 Sprague Dawley rats. The B subunit of the cholera toxin was employed as a retrograde tracer to determine the locations, within the nucleus ambiguus, of the neurons of these intrinsic laryngeal muscles following intramuscular injection. The labelled neurons were found ipsilaterally in the nucleus ambiguus grouped in discrete populations with reproducible rostrocaudal and dorsoventral locations among the sample of animals. Neurons innervating the cricothyroid muscle were located the most ros- tral of the three populations, neurons innervating the posterior cricoary- tenoid were found more caudal, though there was a region of rostrocaudal overlap between these two populations. The most caudal were the neu- rons innervating the thyroarytenoid muscle, presenting a variable degree of overlap with the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle. The mean number (6SD) of labelled neurons was found to be 41 6 9 for the cricothyroid, 39 6 10 for the posterior cricoarytenoid and 33 6 12 for the thyroarytenoid.
PB Wiley
YR 2013
FD 2013-02-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104462
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104462
LA eng
NO Hernández-Morato I, Pascual-Font A, Ramírez C, Matarranz-Echeverría J, McHanwell S, Vázquez T, Sañudo JR, Valderrama-Canales FJ. Somatotopy of the neurons innervating the cricothyroid, posterior cricoarytenoid, and thyroarytenoid muscles of the rat's larynx. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2013 Mar;296(3):470-9. doi: 10.1002/ar.22643. Epub 2013 Feb 4. PMID: 23381831.
NO Cursos de Formación de Postgrado; Número de subvención: UCM920547
NO Instituto de Salud Carlos III (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 jul 2024