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lateral hypothalamic area

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The lateral hypothalamus or lateral hypothalamic area is a part of the hypothalamus. It is concerned with hunger. Damage to this area can cause reduced food intake. Stimulating the lateral hypothalamus causes a desire to eat, while stimulating the ventromedial hypothalamus causes a desire to stop eating. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_hypothalamic_area ]

Synonyms: lateral group of hypothalamic nuclei, lateral hypothalamic group, lateral hypothalamic zone (Crosby), lateral division of hypothalamus, lateral hypothalamic region, area hypothalamica lateralis

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001931, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001933, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001907, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001906

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/HypothalamicNuclei.PNG

has related synonym

lateral hypothalamic area (Nissl 1913), lateral hypothalamic area proper, lateral hypothalamic nucleus, area lateralis hypothalami

id

UBERON:0002430

prefLabel

lateral hypothalamic area, Lateral hypothalamic region

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569