Olfactory Bulb

Hierarchy level in atlas is 3: 2 superstructures include it.

abbreviation: MOB

Abbreviation

MOB

Species

Mouse

Description of part

Collator note: this term does not exist in the list of structures, but is used as region in the sagittal diagram page 50. It is considered here as the main olfactory bulb, since its substructures are the layers of the main olfactory bulb described in Shipley et al. 1995 and used by the authors of this nomenclature. The abbreviation was adapted from the Rat Brain Atlas, Swanson 1998.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Paxinos/Franklin-2001

Endorsement

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

Collator argument

The hierarchy was constructed following the associated reference and Shipley et al.

Reference

Author: Paxinos G., Franklin K.B.J.
Title of Book: The mouse brain in stereotaxic coordinates.
Year: 2001
Pages: 15-60
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Academic Press