"Optic Tract" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nerve fiber originating from the OPTIC CHIASM that connects predominantly to the LATERAL GENICULATE BODIES. It is the continuation of the VISUAL PATHWAY that conveys the visual information originally from the RETINA to the optic chiasm via the OPTIC NERVES.
| Descriptor ID |
D065866
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.317.689
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| Concept/Terms |
Optic Tract- Optic Tract
- Optic Tracts
- Tract, Optic
- Tracts, Optic
- Tractus Optici
- Optici, Tractus
- Tractus Opticus
- Opticus, Tractus
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Optic Tract" by people in Profiles.
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Sun Z, Parra C, Bang JW, Fieremans E, Wollstein G, Schuman JS, Chan KC. Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Reveals Optic Tract Damage That Correlates with Clinical Severity in Glaucoma. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:1746-1749.
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Paul DA, Gaffin-Cahn E, Hintz EB, Adeclat GJ, Zhu T, Williams ZR, Vates GE, Mahon BZ. White matter changes linked to visual recovery after nerve decompression. Sci Transl Med. 2014 Dec 10; 6(266):266ra173.