Abbreviation

MSC

Species

Rat

Description of part

Swanson and Cowan 1979. There is no morphologically distinct border between the medial spetal nucleus and nucleus of the diagonal band, although an arbitrary border is often drawn at the widest point of the complex (see Atlas level 16). This level also shows that is often convenient to describe horizontal and vertical limbs of the nucleus of the diagonal band (Raisman 1966). Unfortunately, Price and Powell (1970) applied the term nucleus of the horizontal limb of the diagonal band to a laterally adjacent cell group that had been widely referred to as the magnocellular preoptic nucleus since the time of Loo (1931), and that projects to the olfactory bulb rather than the hippocampal formation (see not 62).

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-1992

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The hierarchy was constructed and adapted according to the information found in the Rat Brain Atlas, Swanson 1992. We have considered three types of brain structures: grisea (neural masses), fiber tracts, and ventricles. The hierarchical tree was constructed by taking into account two criteria: the set of classes and subclasses of the basic cell groups and fiber systems of the rat CNS and the topological positions of structures relative to superstructures.

Reference

Medial septal complex - Rat - Swanson-1998
Medial septal complex - Rat - Swanson-2004
Medial septal complex - Mouse - Dong-2007