vestibulospinal tract in dogs

A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the vestibular nucleus of the pons towards target cells in the spinal cord[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vestibulospinal tract is

A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the vestibular nucleus of the pons towards target cells in the spinal cord[GO]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the vestibulospinal tract is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the vestibulospinal tract connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of brain and white matter.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vestibulospinal tract. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as vestibulo-spinal tract, tractus vestibulospinalis, vestibulo-spinal tracts, vestibulospinal pathway and vestibulospinal tracts. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002768, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: brain and white matter.
• A kind of: axon tract.
• overlaps: medulla oblongata and spinal cord.

Questions

Where is the vestibulospinal tract?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the vestibulospinal tract connect to?

Part of: brain and white matter.

Is the vestibulospinal tract the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.