Publication date: Available online 23 May 2017
Source:Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger
Author(s): Kojiro Takezawa, Grant Townsend, Jim Manavis, Mounir Ghabriel
The trochlear nerve is generally considered to be a purely motor nerve supplying one extraocular muscle, the superior oblique. In the current study, 28 orbits were dissected and in one orbit (3.6%), the trochlear nerve divided into two main branches. The medial branch followed the classical course, entered the superior oblique muscle and was presumed to be motor in function. However, before entering the muscle, it partially fused with the frontal nerve, and gave a bundle of nerve fibres to the frontal nerve. The lateral branch gave a communication to the frontal nerve, travelled along the lacrimal nerve, received a branch from the lacrimal nerve then penetrated the lacrimal gland. The lateral branch was presumed to be sensory. Paraffin sections from the two branches were stained using immunohistochemistry. The two branches had different nerve fibre populations and showed distinct differences in neurofilament protein (NFP) immuno-labelling. While both branches showed intense labelling for NFP-H, the lateral branch showed no staining or faint staining for NFP-M and NFP-L respectively, but the medial branch showed moderate labelling for both the NFP-M and NFP-L. Staining for substance P, a marker for nociceptive fibres, showed intense staining in a subset of fibres in the lateral branch, but no staining in the medial branch. Calcitonin gene-related peptide labelling was evident in some axons and some Schwann cells in the medial branch but widespread, weak and fine granular in the lateral branch. These findings indicate that, in some individuals (3.6%), the trochlear nerve may contain motor and sensory fibres, suggesting inter-nuclear communication within the brainstem during embryogenesis or mixing of nerve fibres in their extra-axial pathways.
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