Early Human Development
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 23-33, 25 April 1997

Development of the human lateral vestibular nucleus: a morphometric evaluation

  • Mayumi Fujii

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, 5-8 Hatanodai 1, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Noboru Goto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, 5-8 Hatanodai 1, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
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  • Susumu Onagi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, 5-8 Hatanodai 1, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
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  • Akira Okada

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, 3-138 Sugimoto 3, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558, Japan
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  • Akinori Kida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamimachi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan

Received 24 April 1996; received in revised form 27 June 1996; accepted 29 July 1996.

Abstract 

The development of the human lateral vestibular nucleus was studied on serial sections of the brain of 8 fetuses and neonates at 12–40 weeks of gestation, an infant at 2 months of age and an adult of 63 years using a microscope with a drawing tube and an image-analysing computer system. A morphometric analysis revealed that the lateral vestibular nucleus, whose neurons were distinguished from glia after 16 weeks of gestation, divided cytoarchitectonically into the medial and the lateral subnuclei at 21 weeks of gestation onwards, and showed the moderate development in terms of the columnar length and volume, neuronal size and neuropil.

Keywords:  Brain stem, Human fetus, Serial sections, Neuroanatomy

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PII: S0378-3782(96)01800-2

Refers to erratum:

  • Erratum to “development of the human lateral vestibular nucleus: a morphometric evaluation” Early Hum. Dev. 48 (1,2) 23–33

    Mayumi Fujii, Noboru Goto, Susumu Onagi, Akira Okada, Akinori Kida
    Early Human Development 10 October 1997 (Vol. 49, Issue 3, Pages 223-224)

Early Human Development
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 23-33, 25 April 1997

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