Abbreviation

MA

Species

Rat

Description of part

This nucleus comes as close to a basal nucleus of Meynert as anything in the rat. Cholinergic neurons here innervate preferentially in the olfactory bulb. Whether it is in fact of the preoptic hypothalamus, derived from third ventricular neuroepithelium, is doubtful. See Swanson 1976a; Rye et al. 1984 and notes 62 and 64.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-1992

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The hierarchy was constructed and adapted according to the information found in the Rat Brain Atlas, Swanson 1992. We have considered three types of brain structures: grisea (neural masses), fiber tracts, and ventricles. The hierarchical tree was constructed by taking into account two criteria: the set of classes and subclasses of the basic cell groups and fiber systems of the rat CNS and the topological positions of structures relative to superstructures.

Reference

Magnocellular preoptic nucleus - Rat - Swanson-1998
Magnocellular preoptic nucleus - Rat - Swanson-2004