peripeduncular nucleus
A group of neuron cell bodies that form a thin, caplike configuration over the dorsolateral aspect of the crus cerebri; many of its cells are acetylcholinesterase positive. [ http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=61630 ]
Synonyms: peripeduncular nucleus of pons
Term info
- BAMS:PP
- DHBA:12285
- MA:0000875
- BM:MB-PPN
- SCTID:25949000
- UMLS:C0152368 (BIRNLEX:1474)
- EMAPA:37717 (MA:th)
- FMA:72437
- DMBA:16342
- BAMS:PPd
- BIRNLEX:1474
- neuronames:520 (BIRNLEX:1474)
- HBA:9050
- MBA:1044
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002704, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002776
FMA and NIF support this being part of midbrain tegmentum; MA places this in the thalamus and ABA supports thalamus. todo - check. for now we take a conservative position and assert overlaps for both rather than part of
nucleus peripeduncularis thalami, nucleus peripeduncularis
uberon
UBERON:0002144
Peripeduncular nucleus
Term relations
- nucleus of midbrain tegmentum
- midbrain nucleus
- brainstem nucleus
- part of some midbrain tegmentum
- overlaps some ventral thalamus