1Department of Bioengineering, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, Henan, China
2School of Biotic Resources and Environmental Science, QuJing Normal University
3MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, School of Life Science; Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. email: jlwang@lzu.edu.cn
Online published on 22 March, 2012.
The brains of 10 bactrian camels were dissected to study the shape, location of the basal nucleus. Seven coronal slices of brain were uniformly taken between callosal genu and splenium and 6 uniform sagittal slices of left cerebral hemisphere of brain were examined. The corpus striatum is the great basal muclei of the hemisphere. It is situated rostral to the thalamus and the cerebral crus. The entire complex is often referred to as the coupus striatum, which is subdivided into the paleostriatum (pallidum or globus pallidus), the neostriatum (caudate nucleus and putamen) and the archistriatum (amygdaloid bod). The caudate nucleus is a large grey mass forming the foor of the lateral ventricle. The pallidum is covered externally by putamen which is surrounded by fibres. Amygdaloid body is situated lateroventrocaudally to lateral ventricle within the caudal part of the piriform lobe. The diameter of this nucleus is about one cm.
Bactrian camels, Basal nucleus, Brain
