Chemoarchitectonic zonation of the monkey cerebellum.

ABSTRACT

The modular organization of the monkey cerebellum is revealed in normal material by histochemical methods for demonstrating the presence of the enzymes acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and cytochrome oxidase (CO). In the cerebellar white matter, AChE- and CO-rich fibers are distributed in longitudinal compartments, which are aligned with AChE- and CO-rich bands in the granule cell layer, and with narrower AChE-rich strips in the molecular layer. The number and disposition of zones demonstrated histochemically are consistent with, and extend, the basic scheme of cerebellar zonation established by Voogd and Voogd and Bigaré.