JSON

lateral parabrachial nucleus

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003007


The lateral parabrachial nucleus induces thirst by stimulating the median preoptic nucleus. It gets its name from its location relative to the superior cerebellar peduncles, which is also known as the 'brachia conjunctiva'. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_parabrachial_nucleus ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

has related synonym

parabrachial nucleus, lateral division, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis

id

UBERON:0003007

prefLabel

Lateral parabrachial nucleus

Term relations