Olivocerebellar tract

Olivocerebellar tract
File:Gray695.png Transverse section of medulla oblongata below the middle of the olive. (Cerebello-olivary fibers visible at center right.)
Details
Latin	Tractus olivocerebellaris
Identifiers
NeuroNames	hier-801
NeuroLex ID	Olivocerebellar tract
Dorlands /Elsevier	t_15/12817047
TA
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

The olivocerebellar tract, also known as olivocerebellar fibers, are neural fibers which originate at the olivary nucleus and pass out through the hilum and decussate with those from the opposite olive in the raphe nucleus, then as internal arcuate fibers they pass partly through and partly around the opposite olive and enter the inferior peduncle to be distributed to the cerebellar hemisphere of the opposite side from which they arise.

They terminate directly on Purkinje cells as the climbing fiber input system.

Additional images

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  Deep dissection of brain-stem (lateral view)

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  Deep dissection of cortex and brain-stem

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• Illustration and text: cere/text/p3/olivo.htm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical school