Medial preoptic nucleus
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| Brain: Medial preoptic nucleus | ||
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| Preoptic area is 'PO', at left, in blue. | ||
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| BrainInfo/UW | hier-360 | |
| MeSH | A08.186.211.730.385.357.342.450 | |
The preoptic area is a region of the hypothalamus. According to the MeSH classification, it is considered part of the anterior hypothalamus.
There are four nuclei in this region, according to Terminologia Anatomica:
- nucleus preopticus lateralis (lateral preoptic nucleus)
- nucleus preopticus medialis (medial preoptic nucleus)
- nucleus preopticus medianus (median preoptic nucleus)
- nucleus preopticus periventricularis (periventricular preoptic nucleus)
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