Abstract
The cytoarchitecture of the optic tectum of the Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica, was studied using the Golgi-Kopsch method, parvalbumin, calbindin and GABA immunohistochemistry and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase histochemistry. Our results reveal a large number of different types of interneurons in the quail tectum opticum, only part of which are described in the chick or pigeon. Application of parvalbumin and calbindin immunohistochemistry and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase histochemistry reveals the following lamination pattern: The stratum opticum, stratum griseum centrale and stratum album centrale remain unstained, while the laminae of the stratum griseum et fibrosum superficiale exhibit a roughly complementary staining pattern of calbindin (laminae c, d, e, f, g, i) and parvalbumin (laminae a, h, i). Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase histochemistry yields a dense band in lamina i. The Golgi material reveals the following cell types in the stratum griseum et fibrosum superficiale: marginal cells in the stratum opticum and in lamina h and i, horizontal cells in laminae a and c, large and small radial cells in laminae b, d, h and i, multiform cells in lamina b, bitufted cells in lamina d and e, large pear-shaped cells in lamina g, wide-field cells in lamina j, and stellate cells in lamina j and in the stratum griseum centrale. We consider horizontal cells, bitufted cells, multiform cells and small radial cells to be GABAergic interneurons of the stratum griseum et fibrosum superficiale which seem to be more numerous than in the pigeon tectum opticum. Golgi impregnation and injection of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin into the pretectal nucleus lentiformis yielded regularly distributed clusters of telodendra of pretectal axons in lamina d of the stratum griseum et fibrosum superficiale, which are identical in shape and position with axon plexus revealed by Golgi staining.
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