Abbreviation

von

Species

Rat

Description of part

According to Vacarezza et al. 1981, Halpern 1987. It may be thought of a specialization of the olfactory nerve from a specialized region of the olfactory epithelium, the vomeronasal organ. It ends in the accessory olfactory bulb, whose axons travel through a localized region of the lateral olfactory tract called the accessory olfactory tract (Scalia and Winans 1975).

Part type

fiber tract

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

Vomeronasal nerve - Rat - Swanson-1998