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Injection of radioactive leucine in various regions of the brain stem reticular formation has revealed the presence of ample crossed reticulo-reticular connections in the cat. The terminal area for the crossed fibers are almost mirror images of the injected sites. The findings made is another example that hitherto unknown fiber connections can be demonstrated by axoplasmic protein tracing.
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Walberg, F. Crossed reticulo-reticular projections in the medulla, pons and mesencephalon. Z. Anat. Entwickl. Gesch. 143, 127–134 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00525765
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