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medial preoptic nucleus

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The medial preoptic nucleus is bounded laterally by the lateral preoptic nucleus, and medially by the preoptic periventricular nucleus. It releases gonadotropin-releasing hormone, controls copulation in males, and is larger in males than in females.[WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_dimorphic_nucleus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_preoptic_nucleus#Medial_preoptic_nucleus ]

Synonyms: medial preoptic hypothalamic nucleus

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002706, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001935, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002625, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002206, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002634

depicted by

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

has related synonym

nucleus praeopticus medialis, area praeoptica medialis, area preopticus medialis, nucleus preopticus medialis

id

UBERON:0002035

prefLabel

Medial preoptic nucleus