Posterior Lobe of the Pituitary Gland

Preferred Label : Posterior Lobe of the Pituitary Gland;

NCIt synonyms : Neurohypophysis; Posterior Lobe of Pituitary Gland; Posterior Pituitary Gland; Posterior Lobe of Pituitary;

NCIt definition : The neural or post-neural lobe of the pituitary gland which stores and releases vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysins.;

Details

Origin ID

C12773;

UMLS CUI

C0032009;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Pituitary Gland [NCIt concept]
Associated anatomy of gene products
- Oxytocin [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire neurohypophysis (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Neural lobe of neurohypophysis [FMA entity]
- Neurophysin (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- neural lobe of neurohypophysis [Radlex concept]
- neurohypophysis [UBERON concept]
- neurohypophysis [Radlex concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Herring Body [NCIt concept]
- Pituicyte [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Neurohypophysis [FMA entity]
- Neurohypophysis structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- pituitary gland, posterior [MeSH Descriptor]
- pituitary gland, posterior [MeSH concept]
- pituitary posterior lobe [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Neurohypophysis [FMA entity]
- Neurohypophysis structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- neurohypophysis [Radlex concept]
- pituitary gland, posterior [MeSH Descriptor]
- pituitary gland, posterior [MeSH concept]
- pituitary posterior lobe [SNOMED Notion]
is_primary_anatomic_site_of_disease
- Ependymal Pituicytoma [NCIt concept]
- Granular Cell Tumor of the Sellar Region [NCIt concept]
- Pituicytoma [NCIt concept]
- Posterior Pituitary Gland Neoplasm [NCIt concept]
- Spindle Cell Oncocytoma [NCIt concept]
tissue_is_expression_site_of_gene_product
- Arginine-Vasopressin [NCIt concept]
- Vasopressin-Neurophysin 2-Copeptin [NCIt concept]

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