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From: The sea lamprey has a primordial accessory olfactory system

Figure 2

Anterograde and retrograde connections of the lamprey accessory olfactory organ. Biocytin injections were made to AOE vesicles and representative pictures are shown here. A, following dye loading, short stout cells with cilia extending into the lumen of the AOE are visible (red arrows). Scale bar: 10 μm. B, olfactory sensory neurons with long thin axons are retrogradely labeled in the valleys of main olfactory lamellae (red arrows). Scale bar: 20 μm. C, the dorsal half of the nerve is preferentially labeled, reflecting the dorsal pathway of axons from the AOE to the telencephalon. Cell bodies and fibers are seen in the medial (D) and central (E) part of the olfactory bulb. The ventral portion of the DTN and the striatum (F) have short thin fibers and cell bodies. The DTN has coarse, thick fibers and the lateral pallium has short, coarse fibers and cell bodies (G). A bundle of thick fibers is visible from the medial pallium to the DTN (H) and cell bodies are visible in the dorsal pallium and the ventral border of the DTN. The lateral pallium has a grouping of cell bodies and a mixed population of thin and thick fibers (I). aoe: accessory olfactory epithelium; dpal: dorsal pallium; dtn: dorsomedial telencephalic neuropil; glom: olfactory glomerulus; lpal: lateral pallium; lven: lateral ventricle; ob: olfactory bulb; onf : olfactory nerve fascicle; str: striatum. Scale bars for C-I: 100 μm.

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