Femoral nerve (muscular branch to vastus lateralis)

The "nerve to vastus lateralis" refers to a branch of the **femoral nerve** that provides motor innervation to the vastus lateralis muscle, one of the four quadriceps muscles in the anterior thigh. The femoral nerve arises from lumbar spinal roots L2, L3, and L4, and its muscular branches supply the anterior thigh muscles, enabling knee extension[1][5][7][8]. This nerve is essential for movement and function of the quadriceps but is not considered a molecular therapeutic target or receptor and is not the subject of drug targeting or molecular pharmacology. **Explanation:** - This entity is not a molecular target, but a nerve supplying a skeletal muscle. It is a gross anatomical structure, not a receptor, ion channel, enzyme, or defined molecular entity. - It is not a therapeutic target and does not have interacting drugs, associated mechanisms of drug action, or disease roles in the sense meant by "target" in pharmacology or molecular biology. - Most resources and anatomical nomenclature refer to the femoral nerve, with "muscular branch to vastus lateralis" as a more anatomically precise term[1][5][7][8]. - Marked as "is_incorrect: true" because this is not a target in the intended sense, and may reflect an input or conceptual error for drug target databases.

Other names

Muscular branch of femoral nerve to vastus lateralisnerve supply to vastus lateralis