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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2012 Oct 8;295(11):2000–2009. doi: 10.1002/ar.22582

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Drawings of six equally spaced (every 1.2 mm) transverse sections from rostral to caudal (i.e., A–F) through the human vestibular nuclear complex. Abbreviations with upper case letters are nuclear groups, those in lower case are fiber tracts: VIIIth nerve (8n); abducens nucleus (6); descending vestibular nucleus (DVN); dorsal motor vagal nucleus (10); e-group (E); facial nerve (7n); facial nucleus (7); flocculus (Floc); hypoglossal nucleus (12); inferior cerebellar peduncle (icp); interstitial nucleus of the vestibular nerve (Its8n); lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN); magnocellular medial vestibular nucleus (MVNmc); medial longitudinal fasciculus (mlf); medial vestibular nucleus (MVN); middle cerebellar peduncle (mcp); nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH); paraflocculus (PFloc); parvocellular medial vestibular nucleus (MVNpc); solitary tract (sol); spinal trigeminal nucleus (Sp5); spinal trigeminal tract (sp5); superior cerebellar peduncle (scp); superior vestibular nucleus (SVN); y-group (Y). Redrawn and modified from Büttner-Ennever and Gerrits, 2004 and Holstein, 2012.