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abducens nucleus

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Nucleus located beneath the floor of the 4th ventricle in the pontine tegmentum, containing motor neurons innervating the lateral rectus muscle of the eye (Brodal, Neurological Anatomy, 3rd ed., 1981, pg 533). [ BIRNLEX:1366 ]

Synonyms: nVI, nucleus nervi abducentis, sixth cranial nerve nucleus, motor nucleus VI, nucleus of abducens nerve (VI), abducens motor nucleus, abducens VI nucleus, abducent nucleus, abducens motor nuclei, abducens nerve nucleus, nucleus of abducens nerve

Term info

database cross reference
  • ZFA:0000713
  • NCIT:C12836
  • Wikipedia:Abducens_nucleus
  • SCTID:280165008
  • UMLS:C0152407 (BIRNLEX:1366)
  • DMBA:17279
  • MA:0001010
  • BAMS:6
  • MESH:D065827
  • neuronames:585 (BIRNLEX:1366)
  • UMLS:C0152407 (ncithesaurus:Abducens_Nucleus)
  • FMA:54504
  • EMAPA:35105
  • BIRNLEX:1366
  • HBA:9136
  • MBA:653
  • TAO:0000713
  • EHDAA2:0004310
  • BAMS:VI
  • EV:0100266
  • DHBA:12418
  • BM:Pons-VI
Subsets

uberon_slim, vertebrate_core

plural term
abducens motor nuclei [ TAO:0000713 ]

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003011, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002147, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002633, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002963, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002149, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002143, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007632

UBPROP 0000001

Hindbrain motor nucleus which is the origin of motor axons of cranial nerve VI. From Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain.[TAO]

UBPROP 0000012

part of medulla oblongata in ABA and ZFA; part of pons in MA and pontine tegmentum in NIF; note that pons/medulla are spatially disjoint in ABA.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Gray696.png

has related synonym

nucleus nervi abducentis, nucleus abducens, abducens nucleus proper

id

UBERON:0002682

prefLabel

Abducens nucleus, abducens nucleus