Frontopontine fibers

Frontal lobe
Frontopontine fibers
Tractography of frontopontine fibers
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
  1. Lemniscus (in blue) with a’ the medial lemniscus and a" the lateral lemniscus
  2. Medial longitudinal fasciculus
  3. Raphé
  4. Temporopontine fibers
  5. Portion of medial lemniscus, which runs to the lentiform nucleus and insula
  6. Cerebrospinal fibers
  7. Frontopontine fibers
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Identifiers
Latinfibrae frontopontinae
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Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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The frontopontine fibers[1] are situated in the medial fifth of the base of the cerebral peduncles; they arise from the cells of the frontal lobe and then pass through the anterior limb of internal capsule at last end in the nuclei of the pons.

The frontopontine tract (tractus frontopontinus) refers to the combination of the fibers.

See also

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 802 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. ^ 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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