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olivary pretectal nucleus

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002565

Small distinct nucleus in the pretectum of mammals involved in the pupillary light reflect. In rats, it is an olive shaped (anterior) nucleus lying ventral to the brachium of the superior colliculus (Paxinos, The rat nervous system, 2nd ed, 1995, pg. 862). Physiologically, it is identified by neurons sensitive to luminance changes. [ BIRNLEX:1037 ]

Synonyms: olivary nucleus of superior colliculus, nucleus praetectalis olivaris, pretectal olivary nucleus

Term info

database cross reference
  • BIRNLEX:1037
  • UMLS:C0175359 (BIRNLEX:1037)
  • BAMS:OPT
  • BAMS:OP
  • BAMS:OPt
  • DHBA:12186
  • neuronames:472 (BIRNLEX:1037)
  • MBA:706
  • EMAPA:37921 (MA:th)
  • Wikipedia:Olivary_pretectal_nucleus
  • HBA:9086
  • BAMS:APN
  • BM:MB-Tec-OPT
  • FMA:72405
  • BAMS:APT
  • DMBA:16589
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006848, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002711, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002996

editor note

B&H states this present in urodeles; modify definition

has related synonym

nucleus olivaris mesencephali, anterior pretectal nucleus, nucleus praetectalis anterior, nucleus olivaris pretectalis of Fuse, nucleus olivaris corporis quadrigemini anterioris, nucleus olivaris colliculi superioris (Fuse), nucleus pretectalis anterior

id

UBERON:0002565

prefLabel

Olivary pretectal nucleus, olivary pretectal nucleus

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8293, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9347