The early development of corticobulbar and corticospinal systems. Studies using the North American opossum - PubMed (original) (raw)

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The early development of corticobulbar and corticospinal systems. Studies using the North American opossum

G F Martin et al. Anat Embryol (Berl). 1980.

Abstract

The North American opossum is born 12 days after conception and is therefore available for experimental manipulation in an immature state. We have used the opossum to study the growth of cortical axons into the brainstem and spinal cord and have obtained evidence that such growth occurs in an orderly fashion. Cortical axons reach the ventral mesencephalon 12 days after birth and some of them have grown into the caudal medulla where they decussate by 23 days. At the latter stage immature cortical axons also distribute to the midbrain tegmentum, the basilar pons, the inferior olive and the hilum of the nucleus cuneatus. Cortical axons first enter the spinal cord about 30 days after birth where they are present in the white matter before growing into the dorsal horn. The forelimb placing reaction does not develop until well after cortical axons have reached cervical levels. Axons from the cerebral cortex grow into the spinal cord before there is evidence for cortical innervation of either the red nucleus or the bulbar reticular formation and well before pyramidal cells of the neocortex are mature. The relatively late development of corticospinal and corticobulbar systems contrasts markedly with the early growth of bulbospinal axons.

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