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Table 2 Neuronal populations with highly abundant HTT expression

From: Endogenous mouse huntingtin is highly abundant in cranial nerve nuclei, co-aggregates to Abeta plaques and is induced in reactive astrocytes in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Bregma [mm]

structure name

Association with cranial nerve nuclei

+ 0.98

MS

medial septum nucleus

  

CPu

caudate putamen

  

VP/Tu

ventral pallidum olfactory tubercle

I

Nervus olfactorius

VDB/HDB

nucleus ventral limb diagonal band

  

−0.82

Amy

amygdaloid area

  

Nbm

Nucleus basalis magnocellularis

  

−3.64

EWN

Edinger Westphal nucleus

  

3

oculomotor nerve nucleus

III

Nervus oculomotorius

−4.96

PPT

pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus

  

LDT

laterodorsal tegmental nucleus

  

−5.34

Mo5/PCRtA

motor trigeminal nucleus parvicellular reticular nucleus

  

−5.80

6

abducens nucleus

VI

Nervus abducens

7/P7

facial nucleus/perifacial zone

VII

Nervus facialis

−6.24

MVePC

medial vestibular nucleus parvocellular

VIII

Nervus vestibulocochlearis

−7.48

10

dorsal motor nucleus vagus

X

Nervus vagus

12

hypoglossal nucleus

XII

Nervus hypoglossus

Amb

ambiguus nucleus