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An immunohistochemical method for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) identifies presumably cholinergic axons in two retino-receptive laminae in the optic tectum of the frog Rana pipiens. Following eye enucleation there is no loss of immunoreactive axons in the optic tectum. Following unilateral ablation of the nucleus isthmi there is a near-total loss of ChAT-positive axons in the superficial cholinergic lamina contralaterally and in the deeper cholinergic lamina ipsilaterally. Thus, the cholinergic innervation of the tectum appears to derive from the nucleus isthmi. However, ChAT-positive staining of the basal optic nucleus does depend upon an intact retinal input and could derive from either retinal axons or some system trophically dependent on them.
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