The ventral region of the alar hypothalamus. It is a diencephalic nucleus that is part of the preoptic area and is ventrolateral to the caudal parvocellular preoptic nucleus. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24122702 XAO:EJS ZFA:0000441 ]
Synonyms: SCN
Term information
Term relations
- suprachiasmatic nucleus
- neural nucleus
- starts during some NF stage 32
- part of some anterior hypothalamus