Biology:Oral pontine reticular nucleus
| Oral pontine reticular nucleus | |
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| Latin | nucleus reticularis pontis oralis |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |
The oral pontine reticular nucleus, or rostral pontine reticular nucleus is one of the two components of the medial (efferent/motor) zone of the pontine reticular formation - the other being the caudal pontine reticular nucleus. The efferents of these two structures together give rise to the medial (pontine) reticulospinal tract (which modulates the muscle tone of the trunk and limb musculature). A population of their neurons together also form the paramedian pontine reticular formation which is involved in the coordination of horizontal conjugate eye movements in response to head movements.[1]
Anatomy
Afferents
It receives sensory and motor cortical afferents via corticoreticular fibers.[1]
Research
Different populations of the pontis oralis have displayed discharge patterns which coordinate with phasic movements to and from paradoxical sleep. It is thus apparently involved in the mediation of changing to and from REM sleep.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patestas, Maria A.; Gartner, Leslie P. (2016). A Textbook of Neuroanatomy (2nd ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 307–308, 310. ISBN 978-1-118-67746-9.
- ↑ Dergacheva OIu et al. Impulse activity of neurons in the nucleus pontis oralis in cats during sleep--wakefulness cycle. Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 2002 Dec;88(12):1530-7.
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