Periaqueductal gray (PAG; also called the 'central gray') is the gray matter located around the cerebral aqueduct within the midbrain. It plays a role in the descending modulation of pain and in defensive behaviour. The ascending pain and temperature fibers of the spinothalamic tract also send information to the PAG via the spinomesencephalic tract. The spinomesencephalic tract is so-named because the fibers originate in the spine and terminate in the mesencephalon, another name for the midbrain, the part of the brain in which the PAG resides. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periaqueductal_gray http://sourceforge.net/p/obo/mouse-anatomy-requests/40/ ]

Synonyms: periaqueductal grey substance periaqueductal grey midbrain periaqueductal grey periaqueductal grey matter periaqueductal gray of tegmentum central (periaqueductal) gray periaqueductal gray matter anulus of cerebral aqueduct periaqueductal gray

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

latin term
griseum periventriculare mesencephali [ NeuroNames:510 ]

latin term
substantia grisea centralis mesencephali [ NeuroNames:510 ]

latin term
anulus aqueductus cerebri [ NeuroNames:510 ]

latin term
griseum centrale mesencephali [ NeuroNames:510 ]

abbreviation
CGMB [ BIRNLEX:973 NIFSTD:NeuroNames_abbrevSource ]

latin term
anulus aquaeductus [ NeuroNames:510 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Cn3nucleus.png

has broad synonym

griseum centrale

CGMB

substantia grisea centralis

has related synonym

griseum periventriculare mesencephali

griseum centrale mesencephali

central grey substance of midbrain

substantia grisea centralis mesencephali

central gray

central gray substance of the midbrain

periaqueductal gray, proper

central grey

s. grisea centralis

central gray of the midbrain

pAG

anulus aqueductus cerebri

anulus aquaeductus

periaquectuctal grey

id

UBERON:0003040

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001947

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001715

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002691

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002141

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002438

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001966

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001944

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002995

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002722

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002696

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606