Special visceral afferent fiber
Special visceral afferent fibers (SVA) are afferent fibers that develop in association with the gastrointestinal tract.[1] They carry the special sense of taste (gustation).[2] The facial nerve receives taste from the anterior 2/3 of the tongue; the glossopharyngeal from the posterior 1/3, and the vagus nerve from the epiglottis.[3] The sensory processes, using their primary cell bodies from the inferior ganglion, send projections to the medulla, from which they travel in the tractus solitarius, later terminating at the rostral nucleus solitarius.[4] This neuroanatomy article is a stub.