corticofugal

English Journal

Diffusion MRI in corticofugal fibers correlates with hand function in unilateral cerebral palsy.

Holmstrom L, Lennartsson F, Eliasson AC, Flodmark O, Clark C, Tedroff K, Forssberg H, Vollmer B.SourceKarolinska Institutet, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital Q2:O7, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden linda.holmstrom@ki.se.
Neurology.Neurology.2011 Aug 23;77(8):775-83. Epub 2011 Aug 10.
Diffusion MRI improves detection of abnormalities in white matter tracts in cerebral palsy (CP). Relationships between diffusion measurements and hand function are largely unexplored. We aimed first to assess microstructure of corticofugal fibers, and second to explore associations between tract inj
PMID 21832221

Tomasi S, Caminiti R, Innocenti GM.SourceNeuroscience Institute of Turin, Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO), University of Turin, 1-10046 Turin, Italy.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991).Cereb Cortex.2011 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print]
Cortical areas differ in the size and distribution of neuronal cell bodies, density and distribution of myelinated axons, connections and functional properties. We find that they also differ in the diameter of long corticofugal axons, with the thickest axons originating from primary motor, somatosen
PMID 21825269

福田大介,松本範雄
岩手医科大学歯学雑誌 28(3), 192-204, 2003-12-24
… intervals of up to 500 msec Effective sites for conditioning stimulation were concentrated in the lateral side of the IC, through which the corticofugal fibers from the somatosensory and motor cortices pass The IC inhibitory effect was not affected by a systemic injection of naloxone Our findings suggest that the transmission of nociceptive information is modulated at the level of the medullary dorsal horn by the corticofugal fiber via the IC and that transmitters other than opioids are involved in the IC …
NAID 110001099993