Abbreviation

OLF

Species

Rat

Description of part

Defined here as regions of the cortical mantle that receive direct input from the olfactory nerve (primary, see Brodmann 1909), or from the main and accessory olfactory bulbs (unimodal association, see Price 1987). The latter also includes also superficial regions of the amygdala (the NLOT, COA, PAA, and TR), and it is important to point out that the entorhinal area of the hippocampal formation also receives direct olfactory input (Kosel et al. 1981), although it receives many other types of sensory information and thus not usually included in the olfactory region

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.

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