Abbreviation

MS

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-1998

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The position of this brain part in hierarchy was collated from the associated reference

Reference

Medial septal nucleus - Rat - Swanson-1992
Medial septal nucleus - Rat - Swanson-2004
Medial septal nucleus - Mouse - Dong-2007