Light microscopic and autoradiographic study of the subcommissural organ and the post-subcommissurral area in the native cat, Dasyurus hallucatus (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia)

In Dasyurus hallucatus the subcommissural organ (SCO) cells differentiate around the 22nd day after gestation (a.g.). 3H-thymidine studies demonstrate no multiplication of differentiated SCO cells. The cells of the lateral part of the organ multiply longer than the cells of the medial part. Beside the secretion into the cerebrospinal fluid, the subcommissural organ cells possess intimate contact with their basal processes to leptomeningeal blood vessels. Between the 40th and 100th day a.g., but not in adults, a concentration of cells like the tail of a comet is demonstrated in the dorsomedian wall of the aquaeduct of Sylvii. (author)