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Granular insular cortex (or visceral area) refers to a portion of the cerebral cortex defined on the basis of internal structure in the human and macaque[1], the rat[2] and the mouse.[3] Classified as neocortex, it is in primates distinguished from adjacent allocortex (periallocortex) by the presence of granular layers (external granular layer (II) and internal granular layer (IV)) and by differentiation of the external pyramidal layer (III) into sublayers.[4] In primates it occupies the posterior part of the insula.[5] In rodents it is located on the lateral surface of the cortex rostrally, dorsal to the gustatory area or, more caudally, dorsal to the agranular insula.[6]
References
- ^ Mesulam M-M; Mufson EJ (1984). The insula of Reil in man and monkey: Architectonics, connectivity, and function. Chapter 5, pp. 179-226 in Cerebral Cortex, Peters A and Jones EG (Eds)
- ^ Swanson LW (1998). Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. Second Revised Edition, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.
- ^ Paxinos G; Franklin KBJ (2001). The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Second Edition, Academic Press, San Diego.
- ^ Zilles K (2004) Architecture of the human cerebral cortex. Chapter 27 in The Human Nervous System, second edition. G. Paxinos and J.K. Mai (Eds.) Elsevier, Amsterdam.
- ^ Mesulam M-M; Mufson EJ (1984). The insula of Reil in man and monkey: Architectonics, connectivity, and function. Chapter 5, pp. 179-226 in Cerebral Cortex, Peters A and Jones EG (Eds)
- ^ Swanson LW (2004) Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. Third Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, Oxford.
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