laterodorsal tegmental nucleus ( LdTg )
The term laterodorsal tegmental nucleus refers to a group of nerve cells in the dorsal midbrain tegmentum and the pontine central gray of the pontine tegmentum at the junction of the midbrain and the pons. It is found in the human ( Crosby-1962 ), the macaque ( Paxinos-2009a ), the rat ( Swanson-2004 ) and the mouse ( Franklin-2008 ). It is the only nucleus embedded in the pontine central gray that is functionally part of the behavioral state system; the others belong to the subcortical motor system ( Swanson-2004 ).
Also known as
| Name | Language | Source | Source Citation | Source Title | Organism |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| laterodorsal tegmental nucleus | English | Crosby-1962 | New York: MacMillan, 1962 | Correlative Anatomy of the Nervous System | human |
| LDTg | acronym | Paxinos-2001 | Second Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, 2001 | The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates | mouse |
| LDT | acronym | Swanson-1998 | Second Revised Edition, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 1998 | Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain | rat |
| LdTg | acronym | NeuroNames | University of Washington, Seattle, WA | NeuroNames | Unspecified |
| LDTg | acronym | Paxinos-2009a | Amsterdam: Elsevier-Academic Press. 2009 | The Rhesus Monkey Brain, Second Edition | Macaca mulatta |