هسته رافه

*هسته رافه*
هسته رافه
	برشی از ساقه مغز در میان جسم زیتونی. (هسته رافه برچسب‌گذاری نشده اما در سمت چپ رافه مشخص شده است.)
	برش افقی از ساقه مغز در قسمت پایین پل مغز. هسته رافه در میان تصویر با #18 برچسب‌گذاری شده است.
جزئیات
شناسه‌ها
لاتین	nuclei raphe
MeSH	D011903
شناسه ; نورولکس	nlx_anat_20090205
TA98	A14.1.04.257; A14.1.04.318; A14.1.05.402; A14.1.05.601; A14.1.06.401
TA2	6035, 5955
FMA	84017

هسته رافه (یونانی: ῥαφή "درز") یا هسته سجافی خوشه‌ای از هسته‌های با اندازه متوسط هستند که در ساقه مغز قرار دارد. عملکرد اصلی این هسته آزادسازی ناقل شیمیایی سروتونین در مغز است..

منابع

↑ Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
↑ George J. Siegel, ed. (1999). "Understanding the neuroanatomical organization of serotonergic cells in brain provides insight into the functions of this neurotransmitter". Basic Neurochemistry. Bernard W. Agranoff, Stephen K. Fisher, R. Wayne Albers, Michael D. Uhler (Sixth ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 0-397-51820-X. In 1964, Dahlstrom and Fuxe (discussed in [2]), using the Falck-Hillarp technique of histofluorescence, observed that the majority of serotonergic soma are found in cell body groups, which previously had been designated as the raphe nuclei.

[Liddell_&_Scott-1] Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[2] George J. Siegel, ed. (1999). "Understanding the neuroanatomical organization of serotonergic cells in brain provides insight into the functions of this neurotransmitter". Basic Neurochemistry. Bernard W. Agranoff, Stephen K. Fisher, R. Wayne Albers, Michael D. Uhler (Sixth ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 0-397-51820-X. In 1964, Dahlstrom and Fuxe (discussed in [2]), using the Falck-Hillarp technique of histofluorescence, observed that the majority of serotonergic soma are found in cell body groups, which previously had been designated as the raphe nuclei.