Major olivocerebellar topographic projection pattern in terms of aldolase C compartments and their putative correspondence to classic olivocerebellar zones
| Origin in the inferior olive | |||||
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| Group | Subnucleus | Subareas | Aldolase C compartmentsa | Conventional olivocerebellar zonesb | |
| I | Subnucleus a (c-MAO) | Caudal | 1+//1+ | A | |
| Intermediate | 2+//3+ (medial) | A (AX)c | |||
| Rostral | 2+//3+ (lateral) | A (AX)c | |||
| r-MAO | 4+//5+ | C2c | |||
| v-PO | 5+//6+ | D1c | |||
| d-PO | 6+//7+ | D2 | |||
| II | Subnucleus β | a+//2+ | A | ||
| Subnucleus c (c-MAO) | Caudal and medial | a+//2+ | A | ||
| Lateral | Caudal | c+//4b+ | Lateral A | ||
| Rostral | d+//5a+ | Lateral A | |||
| DMCC | 2b+//4+ | X-CX | |||
| DM | Caudal | 2b+//4+ | X-CX | ||
| v-PO | Caudomedial | 2b+//4+ | X-CX | ||
| III | Subnucleus b (c-MAO) | Lateral | Caudal | 1-(med)//1- | A |
| Intermediate | 1-(lat)/a-//2- | A | |||
| Rostral | 2a-//3- | Xc | |||
| Medial | Caudolateral | 2b-//4a- | Lateral A | ||
| Caudomedial | c-//4b- | Lateral A | |||
| Intermediate | d-//5a- | Lateral A | |||
| Rostral | 3b-//e2- | CXc | |||
| IV | d-DAO | Medial and central | 2-//4- | Bc | |
| Lateral | b+//f+ | B | |||
| v-DAO | Caudolateral | b-//f- and 3+//e1+ | C1c | ||
| Central | 3-//e1- | C1c | |||
| Rostromedial | 4-//5- | C3c | |||
| DM | Central and rostral | 5-//6- | D0 | ||
| V | Dorsal cap and ventrolateraloutgrowth | Flocculus and nodulusd |
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I-X, Lobules I-X; a-c, sublobules a-c or subnuclei a-c; c-MAO, caudal part of the MAO; r-MAO, rostral part of the MAO; v-PO, ventral lamella of the PO; d-PO, dorsal lamella of the PO; d-DAO, dorsal fold of the DAO; v-DAO, ventral fold of the DAO.
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↵ a Only major termination compartments are shown. See Results for details.
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↵ b Data are from Voogd and Bigaré (1980), Buisseret-Delmas and Angaut (1993), Voogd et al. (2003), and Voogd and Ruigrok (2004).
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↵ c Zones in which the correspondence to zebrin compartments has been shown recently (Voogd et al., 2003; Voogd and Ruigrok, 2004) and confirmed in the present study.
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↵ d Data are from Sugihara et al. (2004).
