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area postrema

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002162

A small, rounded eminence on each side of the fourth ventricle, which receives nerve fibers from the solitary nucleus , spinal cord, and adjacent areas of the medulla. The area postrema lies outside the blood-brain barrier and its functions include acting as an emetic chemoreceptor. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_postrema MESH:A08.186.211.132.810.406.286 ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

abbreviation
AP [ BIRNLEX:2636 NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Gray709.png

external definition

An area of medulla oblongata, outside the blood-brain barrier. The apical terminals of the neurons are, in a strategic location either to monitor the chemical constitution of the plasma or to release neurogenic substances into the general circulation. Ma 1997.[TAO]

function notes

vomiting center in humans

has related synonym

chemoreceptor trigger zone

id

UBERON:0002162

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002591

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002866

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002610

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002126

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002873

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002864

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007633