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vestibulospinal tract

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002768

A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the vestibular nucleus of the pons towards target cells in the spinal cord[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021962 ]

Synonyms: vestibulo-spinal tract

Term info

database cross reference
  • neuronames:812 (BIRNLEX:1643)
  • ZFA:0000709
  • Wikipedia:Vestibulospinal_tract
  • BIRNLEX:1643
  • FMA:72646
  • TAO:0000709
  • UMLS:C0152404 (BIRNLEX:1643)
  • MBA:941
  • BAMS:vs
  • SCTID:369289007
Subsets

uberon_slim, vertebrate_core

plural term
vestibulo-spinal tracts [ ZFA:0000709 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Spinal_cord_tracts_-_English.svg, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Medulla_spinalis_-_tracts_-_English.svg

has related synonym

vestibulospinal pathway, vestibulospinal tracts, tractus vestibulospinalis, vestibulo-spinal tracts

id

UBERON:0002768

prefLabel

Vestibulospinal tract