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diencephalon (dī'ənsĕf`əlŏn): see brain brain, the supervisory center of the nervous system in all vertebrates. It also serves as the site of emotions, memory, self-awareness, and thought.
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The effects of Cd seemed to extend to other areas of the brain, namely, the anterior part of the nucleus glomerulosus (NGa; Figure 2c) of the diencephalic pretectal region that is involved, via mesencephalic circuits, with the regulation of visual motor functions in teleosts (Kaslin and Panula 2001). Effect of selective midbrain and diencephalic 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions on serotonin content in individual preopticohypothalamic nuclei and on serum luteinizing hormone level. Andersson K, Fuxe K, Eneroth P, Herfstrand A, Agnati L, Involvement of D1 dopamine receptors in the nicotine-induced neuroendocrine effects and depletion of diencephalic cathecolamine stores in the male rat. |
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