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... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Prosencephalon > Telencephalon > Septum of Brain > Septal Nuclei
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Septal Nuclei  

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Entry terms

  • Complex, Septal Nuclear
  • Complices, Septal Nuclear
  • Nuclear Complex, Septal
  • Nuclear Complices, Septal
  • Septal Nuclear Complex
  • Septal Nuclear Complices

Scope note

  • Neural nuclei situated in the septal region. They have afferent and cholinergic efferent connections with a variety of FOREBRAIN and BRAIN STEM areas including the HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION, the LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS, the tegmentum, and the AMYGDALA. Included are the dorsal, lateral, medial, and triangular septal nuclei, septofimbrial nucleus, nucleus of diagonal band, nucleus of anterior commissure, and the nucleus of stria terminalis.

History note

  • 78(72); was see under SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM 1975-77

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012686

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