Pyramidal Tracts

"Pyramidal Tracts" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Fibers that arise from cells within the cerebral cortex, pass through the medullary pyramid, and descend in the spinal cord. Many authorities say the pyramidal tracts include both the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts.

Descriptor ID

D011712

MeSH Number(s)

A08.186.854.633

A08.612.380.730

Concept/Terms

Pyramidal Tracts

Decussation, Pyramidal

Corticobulbar Tracts

Corticospinal Tracts

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Anatomy [A]
Nervous System [A08]
Central Nervous System [A08.186]
Spinal Cord [A08.186.854]
Pyramidal Tracts [A08.186.854.633]
Neural Pathways [A08.612]
Efferent Pathways [A08.612.380]
Pyramidal Tracts [A08.612.380.730]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pyramidal Tracts" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pyramidal Tracts" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 137 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2014 and 2019

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	0	2	2
1996	1	0	1
1997	1	1	2
1998	1	0	1
1999	1	0	1
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2002	5	1	6
2005	4	1	5
2006	6	1	7
2007	4	3	7
2008	2	3	5
2009	2	2	4
2010	6	3	9
2011	2	4	6
2012	1	4	5
2013	4	1	5
2014	8	3	11
2015	6	3	9
2016	8	2	10
2017	6	1	7
2018	2	2	4
2019	6	5	11
2020	5	3	8
2021	4	1	5
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	3	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Pyramidal Tracts" by people in Profiles.

Reconstructing the somatotopic organization of the corticospinal tract remains a challenge for modern tractography methods. Hum Brain Mapp. 2023 12 01; 44(17):6055-6073.

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Inter-axonal molecular crosstalk via Lumican proteoglycan sculpts murine cervical corticospinal innervation by distinct subpopulations. Cell Rep. 2023 03 28; 42(3):112182.

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Activation of MAP2K signaling by genetic engineering or HF-rTMS promotes corticospinal axon sprouting and functional regeneration. Sci Transl Med. 2023 01 04; 15(677):eabq6885.

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Linking lesions in sensorimotor cortex to contralateral hand function in multiple sclerosis: a 7 T MRI study. Brain. 2022 10 21; 145(10):3522-3535.

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White matter tract disruption is associated with ipsilateral hand impairment in subacute stroke: a diffusion MRI study. Neuroradiology. 2022 Aug; 64(8):1605-1615.

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Crim1 and Kelch-like 14 exert complementary dual-directional developmental control over segmentally specific corticospinal axon projection targeting. Cell Rep. 2021 10 19; 37(3):109842.

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Corticospinal neuron subpopulation-specific developmental genes prospectively indicate mature segmentally specific axon projection targeting. Cell Rep. 2021 10 19; 37(3):109843.

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Emerging of new bioartificial corticospinal motor synergies using a robotic additional thumb. Sci Rep. 2021 09 16; 11(1):18487.

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Rostro-Caudal Specificity of Corticospinal Tract Projections in Mice. Cereb Cortex. 2021 03 31; 31(5):2322-2344.

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Efficient whole-brain tract-specific T1 mapping at 3T with slice-shuffled inversion-recovery diffusion-weighted imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2021 08; 86(2):738-753.

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