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The dog caudate nucleus was studied by the Nissl, Kluver-Barrera, and Golgi methods in the usual planes of section. A complex spatial organization of the caudate nucleus was established. Radial bundles of fibers form fibrous layers through which run blood vessels and in which large neurons (long-axon reticular and large short-axon smooth-dendritic) and also two types of small cells are located. In the mesh of the fibrous layers barrel-shaped concentrations of small (17.5 µm, about 2–4%, small short-axon smooth-dendritic) and medium-sized (25 µm, about 96–98%, long-axon densely branching spinous) cells can be observed. These concentrations have the appearance of two or three layers of elongated "barrels," their axis perpendicular to the surface of the internal capsule. The stria periventricularis of the caudate nucleus and certain others of its regions are less differentiated.
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Brain Institute, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 474–484, September–October, 1983.
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Leontovich, T.A. Spatial organization of the caudate nucleus in dogs. Neurophysiology 15, 340–348 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066750
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