"Third Ventricle" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A narrow cleft inferior to the CORPUS CALLOSUM, within the DIENCEPHALON, between the paired thalami. Its floor is formed by the HYPOTHALAMUS, its anterior wall by the lamina terminalis, and its roof by EPENDYMA. It communicates with the FOURTH VENTRICLE by the CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT, and with the LATERAL VENTRICLES by the interventricular foramina.
| Descriptor ID |
D020542
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.276.840
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| Concept/Terms |
Third Ventricle- Third Ventricle
- Third Ventricles
- Ventricle, Third
- Ventricles, Third
- 3rd Ventricle
- 3rd Ventricles
- Ventricle, 3rd
- Ventricles, 3rd
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Third Ventricle" by people in Profiles.
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Shearer KD, Stoney PN, Nanescu SE, Helfer G, Barrett P, Ross AW, Morgan PJ, McCaffery P. Photoperiodic expression of two RALDH enzymes and the regulation of cell proliferation by retinoic acid in the rat hypothalamus. J Neurochem. 2012 Aug; 122(4):789-99.
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Benedict RH, Bruce JM, Dwyer MG, Abdelrahman N, Hussein S, Weinstock-Guttman B, Garg N, Munschauer F, Zivadinov R. Neocortical atrophy, third ventricular width, and cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis. Arch Neurol. 2006 Sep; 63(9):1301-6.