"Reticular Formation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A region extending from the PONS & MEDULLA OBLONGATA through the MESENCEPHALON, characterized by a diversity of neurons of various sizes and shapes, arranged in different aggregations and enmeshed in a complicated fiber network.
| Descriptor ID |
D012154
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.772
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| Concept/Terms |
Reticular Formation- Reticular Formation
- Formation, Reticular
- Formations, Reticular
- Reticular Formations
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Reticular Formation" by people in Profiles.
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Sen AN, Campbell PG, Yadla S, Jallo J, Sharan AD. Deep brain stimulation in the management of disorders of consciousness: a review of physiology, previous reports, and ethical considerations. Neurosurg Focus. 2010 Aug; 29(2):E14.
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Reyes BA, Van Bockstaele EJ. Divergent projections of catecholaminergic neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract to limbic forebrain and medullary autonomic brain regions. Brain Res. 2006 Oct 30; 1117(1):69-79.
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Brailoiu GC, Dun SL, Ohsawa M, Yin D, Yang J, Chang JK, Brailoiu E, Dun NJ. KiSS-1 expression and metastin-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain. J Comp Neurol. 2005 Jan 17; 481(3):314-29.