Inferior Colliculus
Hierarchy level in atlas is 2: 1 superstructures include it.
abbreviation: ICAbbreviation
IC
Species
Mouse
Description of part
Collator note: this term appears in the saggital section from page 25. The abbreviation was adapted from Bowden 2002.
Part type
gray matter
Nomenclature
Paxinos/Franklin-2001
Endorsement
The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.
Collator argument
The hierarchy of this region was constructed using the parcellation scheme in this atlas and the information collated from Bowden 2002. See also Swanson 1992.
Reference
Author:
Paxinos G., Franklin K.B.J.
Title of Book:
The mouse brain in stereotaxic coordinates.
Year:
2001
Pages:
15-60
Edition:
2nd
Publisher:
Academic Press
- Midbrain
- interpeduncular nucleus
- Inferior colliculus
- retrorubral field
- supraoculomotor periaqueductal gray
- mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus
- lateral vestibular nucleus
- cuneiform nucleus
- Edinger-Westphal nucleus
- Superior colliculus
- retrorubral nucleus
- deep mesencephalic nucleus
- epimicrocellular nucleus
- interstitial nucleus of Cajal
- paracollicular tegmentum
- posterodorsal tegmental nucleus
- periaqueductal gray
- anterior pretectal nucleus
- minimus nucleus
- parabigeminal nucleus
- ventral tegmental area
- epilemniscal nucleus
- intercollicular nucleus
- retrorubral fields/A8 dopamine cells
- interoculomotor nucleus
- pararubral nucleus
- substantia nigra
- supraoculomotor cap
- medial pretectal nucleus
- central tegmental tract
- interstitial nucleus of Cajal greater part
Major subparts
| Name | Type |
| dorsal cortex of the inferior colliculus | gray matter |
| central cortex of the inferior colliculus | gray matter |
| external cortex of the inferior colliculus | gray matter |
