retrotrapezoid
English
editEtymology
editFrom retro- + trapezoid, in reference to the location of the retrotrapezoid nucleus relative to the trapezoid body.
Adjective
editretrotrapezoid (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the retrotrapezoid nucleus; parafacial.
- 2012, Orexin/Hypocretin System, →ISBN, page 44:
- Orexin A activates retrotrapezoid neurons in mice.
- 2012, Stephen G. Spiro, Gerard A Silvestri, Alvar Agustí, Clinical Respiratory Medicine, →ISBN:
- Apart from the pre-Botzinger complex principally involved in controlling inspiratory motor activity, the retrotrapezoid-parafacial respiratory group (RTN/pFRG) appears to play at least a modulatory role and may be a conditional oscillator that controls active expiration.
- 2015 July 6, “A Phox2b BAC Transgenic Rat Line Useful for Understanding Respiratory Rhythm Generator Neural Circuitry”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The pFRG partially overlaps in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), which was originally identified in adult cats and rats.