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Figure 2 - Origin of cranial nerves involved in swallowing.
Note that cranial nerves V and VII arise in pons and IX, X and XII arise in medulla. In medulla, these nuclei are closely packed and can be affected together in medullary lesions. (Source ...
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Defects in transfer RNA processing cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia
Expression studies showed that TSEN54 was highly expressed in the pons, and the cerebellar dentate and olivary nuclei during the second trimester of pregnancy. Impaired tRNA processing would ...