The habenulo-interpeduncular and mammillothalamic tracts: Early developed fiber tracts in the human fetal diencephalon

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1477-1484

  Cho, Kwang Ho ^a   Mori, Shigemi ^b   Jang, Hyung Suk ^c   Kim, Ji Hyun ^d   Abe, Hiroshi ^e   Rodriguez Vazquez, Jose Francisco ^f   Murakami, Gen ^b  

^a Wonkwang University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Iwamizawa Kojin kai Hospital   (Japan)

^c Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^d Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^e AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Habenulo interpeduncular tract; Human fetus; Limbic system; Mammillothalamic tract; Parvocellular red nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DIENCEPHALON; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HABENULO INTERPEDUNCULAR TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMILLOTHALAMIC TRACT; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED NUCLEUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; ENTOPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; HABENULA; MAMMILLARY BODY; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

BRAIN MAPPING; DIENCEPHALON; ENTOPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; FETUS; HABENULA; HUMANS; MAMMILLARY BODIES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84906934425     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-014-2432-5     Document Type: Article

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