ventral pontine gray
The term ventral pontine gray refers to a composite substructure of the pons that includes the pontine nuclei of the basal pons and the reticulotegmental nucleus of the pontine tegmentum. Its components are found in the human ( Carpenter-1983 ), the macaque ( Martin-2000 ), the rat ( Swanson-2004 ) and the mouse ( Hof-2000 ). Functionally it belongs to the postcerebellar and precerebellar nuclei of the behavior control column ( Swanson-2004 ).
Also known as
| Name | Language | Source | Source Citation | Source Title | Organism |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pontine gray | English | Crosby-1962 | New York: MacMillan, 1962 | Correlative Anatomy of the Nervous System | human |
| Griseum pontis | Latin | Shantha-1968 | Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1968 | A Stereotaxic Atlas Of The Java Monkey Brain (Macaca irus) | Macaca fascicularis |
| pontine gray, general | English | Swanson-2004 | Third Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, Oxford, 2004 | Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. | rat |
| ventral pontine gray | English | NeuroNames | University of Washington, Seattle, WA | NeuroNames | Unspecified |
| PGg | acronym | Swanson-2004 | Third Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, Oxford, 2004 | Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. | rat |