Ventral posterolateral nucleus
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ventral-posterolateral-nucleus-173-2846231
title:
Ventral posterolateral nucleus
text:
The ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) is a nucleus of ventral posterior nucleus of the thalamus. It relays sensory information from the second-order neurons of the neospinothalamic tract and medial lemniscus which synapse with in the third-order neurons in the nucleus. These then project to the somatosensory cortex in the postcentral gyrus. There is uncertainty regarding the location of VMpo, as determined by spinothalamic tract (STT) terminations and staining for calcium-binding proteins, an
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Nucleus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral_posterolateral_nucleus
date created:
2007-04-23T01:02:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T03:02:27Z
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