A5 cell group ( A5 )

The term A5 cell group refers to a group of cells in the vicinity of the superior olivary complex in the pontine tegmentum that label for norepinephine in primates ( Felten-1983 ), rodents ( Dahlstrom-1964 ) and other mammals ( Kitahama-1994 ).

Also known as

Name Language Source Source Citation Source Title Organism
A5 cell group English Smeets-1994 Chapter 20 in Phylogeny and Development of Catecholamine Sytems in the CNS of Vertebrates, WJAJ Smeets and A Reiner (eds), University Press, Cambridge, England, 1994 Catecholamines in the CNS of vertebrates: current concepts of evolution and functional significance mammal
A5 acronym Dahlstrom-1964 Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 62:1-55, 1964 Evidence for the existence of monoamine-containing neurons in the central nervous system rat
noradrenergic group A5 English Felten-1983 Brain Res Bull 1983 Feb;10(2):171-284 Monoamine distribution in primate brain V. Monoaminergic nuclei: anatomy, pathways and local organization. macaque
A5 noradrenaline cells English Paxinos-2001 Second Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, 2001 The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates mouse
A5 acronym Paxinos-2009a Amsterdam: Elsevier-Academic Press. 2009 The Rhesus Monkey Brain, Second Edition Macaca mulatta
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