Corticopontine fibers
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Coronal section through mid-brain.
1. Corpora quadrigemina. 2. Cerebral aqueduct. 3. Central gray stratum. 4. Interpeduncular space. 5. Sulcus lateralis. 6. Substantia nigra. 7. Red nucleus of tegmentum. 8. Oculomotor nerve, with 8’, its nucleus of origin. a. Lemniscus (in blue) with a’ the medial lemniscus and a" the lateral lemniscus. b. Medial longitudinal fasciculus. c. Raphé. d. Temporopontine fibers. e. Portion of medial lemniscus, which runs to the lentiform nucleus and insula. f. Cerebrospinal fibers. g. Frontopontine fibers. |
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| Latin | fibrae corticopontinae, tractus corticopontinus |
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| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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Corticopontine fibers [1] are projections from the cerebral cortex to the pontine nuclei.[2]
Depending upon the lobe of origin, they can be classified as frontopontine fibers, parietopontine fibers, temporopontine fibers or occipitopontine fibers.[3]
References
- ↑ Kamali A, Kramer LA, Frye RE, Butler IJ, Hasan KM. Diffusion tensor tractography of the human brain cortico-ponto-cerebellar pathways: a quantitative preliminary study. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Oct;32(4):809-17. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22330. PMID 20882611
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- ↑ http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/AncilDefinition.aspx?ID=1322&questID=1322
External links
- Illustration and text: 16Pontine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical school
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