The most medial of the cerebellar nuclei; it receives its afferent input from Purkinje cells of the flocculonodular lobe and the vermis, and most of its efferent connections travel via the inferior cerebellar peduncle to the vestibular nuclei and to the medullary reticular formation. [ MP:0009983 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: medial cerebellar nucleus roof nucleus-1 nucleus fastigii medial (fastigial) nucleus
Term information
- BM:CB-CBM
- MBA:989
- HBA:12948
- FMA:72537
- DHBA:12402
- UMLS:C0175490 (BIRNLEX:1146)
- Wikipedia:Fastigial_nucleus
- MA:0001009
- neuronames:690 (BIRNLEX:1146)
- SCTID:279224002
- BAMS:Fas
- BIRNLEX:1146
- BTO:0003839
- VHOG:0001699
- DMBA:16823
- BAMS:FN
- BAMS:C8M
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
fasciculosus thalamic nucleus
nucleus fastigius cerebelli
medial nucleus of cerebellum
fastigial cerebellar nucleus
nucleus fastigii cerebelli
nucleus fastigiatus
nucleus fastigii
nucleus (motorius) tecti cerebelli
One or more deep cerebellar nuclei appear in agnathans, sharks, ropefishes, lungfishes, Latimeria, and amphibians. Reptiles have two nuclei (a medial and a lateral), and birds and mammals have three nuclei (a medial, a lateral, and an interposed nucleus). The medial nucleus of mammals is known as the fastigial nucleus, and the lateral nucleus is known as the dentate nucleus.[well established][VHOG]