Tuber cinereum

Tuber cinereum

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Caption = Base of brain. (Tuber cinerum visible at center.)


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The tuber cinereum is a hollow eminence of gray matter situated between the mammilary bodies and the optic chiasm. The tuber cinereum is part of the hypothalamus.

tructure

Laterally it is continuous with the anterior perforated substances and anteriorly with a thin lamina, the lamina terminalis.

The infundibulum, a hollow conical process, projects from the tuber cinereum. The infundibulum extends forward and down where it is attached to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland.

It houses the nuclei:
*tuberal nucleus
*tuberomamillary nucleus [ [http://patients.uptodate.com/abstract.asp?TR=pituitar/4659&viewAbs=5~6&title=5,6 patients.uptodate.com - Abstracts for References 5 and 6 of 'Hypothalamic-pituitary axis'] ]

Tuberomamillary nucleus

The tuberomammillary nucleus (TMN) is the sole source of histamine in the brain. [ [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/00068993/2003/00000988/00000001/art03347;jsessionid=6dph09jao29d.alice?format=print ingentaconnect.com - IngentaConnect Estrogen receptors and metabolic activity in the ...] ]

Function

Circadian rhythm

By its release of histamine, the tuberomamillary nucleus of the tuber cinereum helpt to regulate the circadian cycle.

ee also

* hypothalamus


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References

External links

* - "Interpeduncular fossa" (#4)


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