Nervus terminalis

Fig. 2.9 Nasal chemoreceptive systems (Terminalis MOS and AOS) in neonate Rabbit. CP = cribriform plate F = forebrain GT = ganglion terminale NT(SNT) = Nervus terminalis ON = olfactory nvs. and F = forebrain (after Huber and Guild, 1913).

Demski L.S. and Schwanzel-Fukada M., eds. (1987). The Terminal Nerve (Nervus Terminalis) — structure function and evolution. Ann NY Acad Sci 519, p. 531. 

Huber G. and Guild R. (1913). Observations on the peripheral distribution of the Nervus terminalis in Mammalia. Anat Rec 7, 253-272. 

Larsell O. (1950). Studies on the Nervus terminalis mammals. J Comp Neurol 130, 3-68. 

Northcutt R.G. and Puzdrowski R. (1988). Projections of the olfactory bulb and Nervus terminalis in the Silver Lamprey. Brain Behav Evol 2, 96-107. 

Schmidt A., Naujoks-Manteuffel C. and Roth G. (1988). Olfactory and vomeronasal projections and the pathway of the Nervus terminalis in ten species of salamanders — a whole mount study employing the horseradish-peroxidase technique. Cell Tissue Res 251, 45-50. 

Schwanzel-Fukuda M., Fadem B., Garcia M. and Pfaff D. (1988). Immunocytochemical localization of LHRH in the brain and Nervus terminalis of the adult and early neonatal Gray Short-Tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica). J Comp Neurol 276, 44-60. 

Stell, W. K., Walker, S. E., Chohan, K. S., and Ball, A. K., 1984, The goldfish nervus terminalis a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and molluscan cardioexcitatory peptide immunoreactive olfactoretinal pathway, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 81 940. 

Larsell, 0., 1918, Studies on the nervus terminalis Mammals, J. Comp Neurol., 30 423. 

Schwanzel-Fukuda, M., Morrell, J. I., and Pfaff, D. W., 1985, Ontogenesis of neurons producing luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) in the nervus terminalis of the rat, J. Comp. Neurol., in press. 

Springer, A. D., 1983, Centrifugal innervation of goldfish retina from ganglion cells of the nervus terminalis, J. Comp. Neurol., 214 404. 

The goldfish nervus terminalis an LHRH- and FMRFamide-immunoreactive olfactoretinal pathway, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 81 940. 

Larsell, 0., 1950, The nervus terminalis, Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol., 59 414. 

Terminal nerve (nervus terminalis) receptors are chemically receptive, and present in both birds and mammals. The biological function of this system remains obscure, although it probably mediates some reproductive behaviors (Wysocki Meredith 1987). In some fishes, electrical stimulation of the terminal nerve causes sperm release (Demski Northcutt 1983). Because the terminal nerve is severed in ablation studies of vomeronasal function, it is conceivable that some behaviors attributed to the vomeronasal system are actually mediated by the terminal nerve (Wysocki Meredith 1987). 

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