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. 2007 Jan-Mar;1(1):2–9. doi: 10.1590/S1980-57642008DN10100002

Table 1.

Brain cholinergic system - cholinergic groups, main projections and most important destinations of the basal prosencephalon.

Basal prosencephalon - nuclei Bundles/fascicles Destination
Medial nucleus of septum (Ch1) nmS fornix hippocampal formation
nucleus of diagnonal band of Broca - ndbBvl   entorhinal cortex
vertical limb (Ch2)     retrosplenial cortex
    medial prosencephalic hypothalamus
Nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca - ndbBhl medial prosencephalic olfactory bulb
horizontal limb (Ch3)      
basal nucleus of Meynert (Ch4) nbM ansa peduncularis amygdala
    (ventral amigdalofugal)  
    medial pathway alo- and mesocortex
      medial orbitofrontal, subcallosal, cingulate,
      pericingulate, retrosplenial
    lateral pathway neocortex
      inferior frontal, dorsal frontoparietal, frontoparietal
      opercular, temporal (superior, middle and inferior),
      insular, inferotemporal, para-hippocampal