Regional part of substantia nigra consisting of a densely packed region of cells, more or less dorsal to the pars reticulata, but extending into the pars reticulata in some species. The dominant neurotransmitter used by pars compacta neurons is dopamine. Pars compacta neurons are pigmented in many species (MM). [ BIRNLEX : 990 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- BIRNLEX:990
- BAMS:SNC
- MA:0001064
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=537 (BIRNLEX:990)
- UMLS:C0175412 (BIRNLEX:990)
- EMAPA:35836
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=537
- MBA:374
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0175412
- DHBA:12252
- BM:MB-SNc
- HBA:9074
- FMA:62907
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantia_nigra_pars_compacta
- UMLS:C0175412 (ncithesaurus:Pars_Compacta)
- BAMS:SNc
- NCIT:C97341
- BTO:0003749
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
latin term
pars compacta substantiae nigrae
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FMA
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TA
FMA
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62907
]
abbreviation
SNC
[
BIRNLEX
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990
NIFSTD
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NeuroNames_abbrevSource
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latin term
nucleus substantiae nigrae, pars compacta
[
NeuroNames
:
537
]
latin term
substantia nigra, pars compacta
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NeuroNames
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537
]
definition
- Regional part of substantia nigra consisting of a densely packed region of cells, more or less dorsal to the pars reticulata, but extending into the pars reticulata in some species. The dominant neurotransmitter used by pars compacta neurons is dopamine. Pars compacta neurons are pigmented in many species (MM).
has exact synonym
- substantia nigra compacta
- substantia nigra compact part
- pars compacta substantiae nigrae
- substantia nigra, compact part
- SNpc
- pars compacta
- compact part of substantia nigra
has obo namespace
- uberon
has related synonym
- pars compacta of substantia nigra
- substantia nigra, compact division
- nucleus substantiae nigrae, pars compacta
- substantia nigra, pars compacta
id
- UBERON:0001965
Term relations
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