The Anterior trigeminothalamic tract (or ventral trigeminothalamic tract) serves as pain, temperature, and light touch pathway from the face, head and neck. It receives input from trigeminal nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and vagus nerve. It receives discriminative tactile and pressure input from the contralateral principal sensory nucleus of CN V, which terminates in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus. It then ascends to the contralateral sensory cortex via three neurons . [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_trigeminothalamic_tract ]
Synonyms: ventral trigeminal pathway trigeminal lemniscus-2 ventral trigeminothalamic tract ventral secondary ascending tract of V tractus trigeminothalamicus anterior anterior trigeminothalamic tract ventral crossed tract
Term information
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_trigeminal_tract
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- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0175460
- BAMS:v5
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=613
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=613 (BIRNLEX:1001)
- DHBA:12803
- UMLS:C0175460 (BIRNLEX:1001)
- BIRNLEX:1001
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ventral trigeminothalamic tract
ventral trigeminal tract
ventral secondary ascending tract of V
tractus trigeminothalamicus anterior
tractus trigeminalis ventralis