In the pons, the primary sensory axons terminate either in the principalsensorynucleus of V (or chief sensorynucleus) (#6197) or turn caudally to form the descending tract of V (or spinal tract of V) (#4621) (fig 6b).
Unlike the other secondary sensory axons that have been studied, these are ipsilateral, i.e., the left nucleus solitarius projects to the left VPM.
Is this tract efferent or afferent to the descending nucleus?
Lazarov, N. Chouchkov: Neuropeptide-like immunoreactivity in the trigeminal principalsensorynucleus of the cat.
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It is the principalsensorynucleus and the mesencephalic nucleus of V. The pontine nucleus or principalsensorynucleus is placed lateral to the motor nucleus in the pontine tegmentum.
It then forms a genu which sweeps across the dorsal surface of the abducent nucleus in order to reach the lateral aspect of the pontine tegmentum where it runs a ventral course to escape at the cerebellopontine angle, medial and inferior to the point of escape of the abducent nerve.
This nerve has its nucleus buried in the facial colliculus, a little ventral to the nucleus of the abducent nerve.
The first stage of auditory information processing occurs in the cochlear nucleus, where the relatively uniform discharge of auditory nerve fibers is transformed into a set of distinct ascending parallel pathways that emphasize different features of the sensory environment.
The auditory system has two principal advantages over the other sensory systems for the study of information processing mechanisms:
Our fundamental interest is to understand the mechanisms used by the nervous system to process and analyze information about the sensory environment.
The medial fillet passes upward in the ventral part of the formatio reticularis through the medulla oblongata, pons and mid-brain to the principalsensorynucleus of the ventro-lateral region of the thalamus.
The posterior root fibers conducting these impulses pass into the fasciculus cuneatus and the collaterals from them to the nucleus dorsalis are said to come almost exclusively from the middle area of the fasciculus cuneatus.
The cerebellar reflex are is supposed to be completed by the fibers of the superior peduncle which pass from the cerebellum to the red nucleus of the mid-brain where some of their terminals and collaterals form synapses with neurons whose axons descend to the spinal cord in the rubrospinal fasciculus.
Al-Ghoul WM, Miller MW (1993a) Orderly migration of neurons to the principalsensorynucleus of the trigeminal nerve of the rat.
Al-Ghoul WM, Miller MW (1993b) Development of the principalsensorynucleus of the trigeminal nerve of the rat and evidence of a transient synaptic field in the trigeminal sensory tract.
Color images were constructed from optical signals detected from the area indicated by the large squares in the insets of Figure 4.
Sensations evoked by stimulation with bursts of different numbers of stimuli and frequencies in the region of the human thalamic principal somatosensory nucleus.
Thermal and pain sensations evoked by microstimulation in the area of the human ventrocaudal nucleus (Vc).
The sensation in the area of the pharynx (PF) and the response to swallowing (RF) is indicated by filled circles at the end of the tick to the left and right of the trajectory, respectively.
tract to ventroposteriolateral nucleus of the thalamus to primary
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One principal ascending spinal pathway for pain is the "lateral"
principal trigeminal sensorynucleus, nucleus of the trapezoid
Mugnaini E, Oertel WH (1985) An atlas of the distribution GABAergic neurons and terminals in the rat CNS as revealed by GAD immunohistochemistry.
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Lee, J.I., Dougherty, P.M., Antezana, D., and Lenz, F.A. Responses of neurons in the region of human thalamic principal somatic sensorynucleus to mechanical and thermal stimuli graded into the painful range.
Dashed arrows indicate nociceptive or endogenous physiological factors that influence pain sensation and unpleasantness.
of pain are often more intense than other types of somatic sensations.
