Area of the forebrain between the anterior commissure and optic chiasm. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preoptic_area http://zfin.org/curator ]

Synonyms: preoptic region of hypothalamus preoptic nuclei

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
  • neuronames:377 (BIRNLEX:1706)
  • FMA:62313
  • BTO:0001796
  • GAID:644
  • ZFA:0000470
  • UMLS:C1284641 (BIRNLEX:1706)
  • BIRNLEX:1706
  • MESH:D011301
  • BM:Die-Hy-POA
  • CALOHA:TS-0822
  • EMAPA:36655
  • Wikipedia:Preoptic_area
  • EFO:0002523
  • UMLS:C0033063 (BIRNLEX:1706)
  • TAO:0000470
  • DMBA:15577
  • HBA:4541
  • BAMS:POA
  • SCTID:362382004
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, vertebrate_core

abbreviation
POA [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23375746 BIRNLEX:1706 NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

latin term
nuclei preoptici [ NeuroNames:377 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/HypothalamicNuclei.PNG

external definition

Area of the forebrain anterior to the posterior tuberculum and the hypothalamus and ventral to the ventral thalamus. See Figure 7, Atlas of Early Zebrafish Brain Development.[TAO]

has related synonym

area preoptica

area hypothalamica rostralis

preoptic hypothalamic region

area praeoptica

regio hypothalamica anterior

nuclei preoptici

preoptic hypothalamic area

preoptic region

id

UBERON:0001928

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7742

taxon notes

Located in the hypothalamus in amniotes[PMC4038951]