Striatopallidal fibres

Micrograph of the putamen (top-right of image) and external globus pallidus (bottom-left of image) showing the striatopallidal fibres (blue, diagonal, linear structures). H&E-LFB stain.

The striatopallidal fibres, also Wilson's pencils,[1][2] pencil fibres of Wilson,[3] and pencils of Wilson, are prominent myelinated fibres that connect the striatum to the globus pallidus.

Their distinctive appearance allows one to identify the putamen on light microscopy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kimura M, Kato M, Shimazaki H, Watanabe K, Matsumoto N (December 1996). "Neural information transferred from the putamen to the globus pallidus during learned movement in the monkey". J. Neurophysiol. 76 (6): 3771–86. PMID 8985875.
  2. ↑ Wilson SAK (1914). "An experimental research into the anatomy and physiology of the corpus striatum". Brain. 36: 427–92. doi:10.1093/brain/36.3-4.427.
  3. ↑ Perry, Arie; Brat, Daniel J. (2010). Practical Surgical Neuropathology: A Diagnostic Approach: A Volume in the Pattern Recognition series (1st ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-0-443-06982-6.
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