Fig. 5.
Antero-posterior distributions of XII premotor and ChAT+ neurons in the IRt region and its rostral extension in 3 rats. A: all cells retrogradely labeled from the XII nucleus. B: all ChAT+ neurons. C: average percentage of ChAT+ XII premotor neurons relative to all retrogradely labeled neurons in 3 rats. D: average percentage of ChAT+ cells retrogradely labeled from the XII nucleus relative to all ChAT+ neurons. The antero-posterior axis is based on a rat brain atlas (44). ChAT+ XII premotor neurons were predominantly located at the level of the XII nucleus, at and caudal to −12.8 mm from bregma.