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posterior commissure

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Rounded band of white fibers crossing the middle line on the dorsal aspect of the upper end of the cerebral aqueduct. It is important in the bilateral pupillary light reflex. Its fibers acquire their medullary sheaths early, but their connections have not been definitely determined. Most of them have their origin in a nucleus, the nucleus of the posterior commissure (nucleus of Darkschewitsch), which lies in the central gray substance of the upper end of the cerebral aqueduct, in front of the nucleus of the oculomotor nerve. Some are probably derived from the posterior part of the thalamus and from the superior colliculus, whereas others are believed to be continued downward into the medial longitudinal fasciculus. The posterior commissure interconnects the pretectal nuclei, mediating the consensual pupillary light reflex[WP]. Diencephalic tract which is located in the vicinity of the dorsal diencephalon and mesencephalon and connects the pretectal nuclei. From Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain[ZFA]. [ ZFA:0000320 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_commissure ]

Synonyms: epithalamic commissure caudal commissure

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

latin term
commissura epithalami [ NeuroNames:484 ]

latin term
commissura epithalamica [ NeuroNames:484 ]

depicted by

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editor note

add connects relationships and check these outside mammalia

external ontology notes

part_of brainstem in MA; midbrain tectum in NIF

has related synonym

commissura posterior

commissura epithalami

posterior commissure (Lieutaud)

commissura epithalamica

id

UBERON:0000936