| Term: | preoptic area regulation of action potential firing rate |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | preoptic area |
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| Synonyms: | area praeoptica, area preoptica, preoptic region |
| Definition: | Area of the forebrain anterior to the posterior tuberculum and the hypothalamus and ventral to the ventral thalamus. See Figure 7, p. 34 in Atlas of Early Zebrafish Brain Development. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000470] |
| Name: | regulation of action potential firing rate |
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| Definition: | Any process that regulates the frequency of action potentials in a spike train. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0099605] QuickGO AmiGO |