The part of the brain that is the morphological boundary between the midbrain and hindbrain and that is the location of an organizing center which patterns the midbrain and hindbrain primordia of the neural plate. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021555 ]
Synonyms: mid-hindbrain junction MHB midbrain hindbrain boundary mid-hindbrain boundary
Term information
- EHDAA:5789
- NCIT:C93172
- VHOG:0000649
- EHDAA2:0004395
- DMBA:16810
- ZFA:0000042
- XAO:0000016
- EMAPA:32857
- neuronames:2076
- TAO:0000042
- AAO:0011064
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Lampreys also have an MHB [midbrain hindbrain boundary], expressing a similar repertoire of regulatory gene cognates as in gnathostomes.[well established][VHOG]
consider adding class for organizer. Consider adding separate class for isthmus as a structure
Term relations
- ectoderm-derived structure
- anatomical junction
- immediate transformation of some midbrain hindbrain boundary neural plate
- part of some brain
- overlaps some hindbrain
- overlaps some midbrain