Auditory nuclei

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Contents 1 Used for 2 Broader Terms 3 Related Terms 4 Scope Note 5 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Used for

cochlear nuclei

Broader Terms

pons

Related Terms

hearing

Scope Note

groups of nerve cells in the central nervous system associated with the cochlear or vestibular nerves; function in hearing.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Although some morphological and physiological information on these auditory nuclei is available, quantitative data on their normal developmental changes in the growth and differentiation is sparse.
• The utility of unbiased stereological estimates of auditory nuclei is discussed in the context of various experimental paradigms.
• Quantitative description of the volume growth of the magnocellular nucleus neurons and linear growth of the auditory nuclei is given from the formation of differentiated neuroblasts (Day 9 of embryogenesis) until the 180th day of postembryonic development.
• This feature is characteristic of all central auditory nuclei is similar in principle to somatotopic and retinotopic maps discussed earlier.
• This suggests that the increase in size of auditory nuclei is regulated by mechanisms that differ from those which regulate the increase of the brainstem as a whole.

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