Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2016 Nov 17;13:154–163. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.11.015

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2016 The Authors

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 1 — The Anatomy of the SN on serial axial sections using Luxol fast blue/Cresyl Violet (LFB/CV), Perls stain, high field spin-echo MRI, and substance P (SP) and calbindin (CB) immunohistochemistry. Case 2 was a 36 yr old male. Serial axial sections at 1.5 mm through a single substantia nigra (SN) A: cartoon showing key anatomical structures based on SP and LFB/CV for borders, LFB/CV for location of pigmented neurons on substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and CB for nigrosomes. Pigmented neurons are shown as black dots and it is notable that not all of these fall within the CB-defined nigrosomes. B: LFB/CV. C: Perls stain. D: High field spin-echo MRI. E: SP. F: CB. Anatomical landmarks are in black. Nigrosomes (1–5) are labelled in red. See text for a detailed description of the anatomy and comparison of images.