Medial dorsal nucleus
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| Brain: Medial dorsal nucleus | ||
|---|---|---|
| Thalamic nuclei: MNG = Midline nuclear group AN = Anterior nuclear group MD = Medial dorsal nucleus VNG = Ventral nuclear group VA = Ventral anterior nucleus VL = Ventral lateral nucleus VPL = Ventral posterolateral nucleus VPM = Ventral posteromedial nucleus LNG = Lateral nuclear group PUL = Pulvinar MTh = Metathalamus LG = Lateral geniculate nucleus MG = Medial geniculate nucleus | ||
| Latin | nucleus mediodorsalis thalami | |
| NeuroNames | hier-295 | |
| MeSH | mediodorsal+thalamic+nucleus | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | n_11/12581843 | |
The medial dorsal nucleus (or dorsomedial nucleus of thalamus) is a a large nucleus in the thalamus.
It communicates with the limbic lobe and prefrontal cortex. The connections of the medial dorsal nucleus have even been used to delineate the prefrontal cortex of the minipig.[1]
By stereology the number of brain cells in the region has been estimated to around 6.43 million neurons in the adult human brain and 36.3 million glial cells, and with the newborn having quite different numbers: around 11.2 million neurons and 10.6 million glial cells.[1]
Additional images
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External links
- Yamamoto T, Yoshida K, Yoshikawa H, Kishimoto Y, Oka H (1992). "The medial dorsal nucleus is one of the thalamic relays of the cerebellocerebral responses to the frontal association cortex in the monkey: horseradish peroxidase and fluorescent dye double staining study". Brain Res 579 (2): 315-20. PMID 1378349.
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