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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:abnormal pineal gland morphology
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Definition:any structural anomaly of the unpaired epithalamic structure that is shaped like a tiny pine cone and located above the posterior commissure near the level of the habenular complex and the sylvian aqueduct; it is both a circumventricular organ and an endocrine organ that secretes melatonin, a serotonin-derived hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms; the pineal parenchyma, consisting of pinealocytes, interstitial (glial-like) cells, phagocytes and capillaries, is arranged into large folliculi separated by septae of connective tissue and blood vessels
Synonyms:exact_synonym: abnormal conarium morphology;   abnormal corpus pineale morphology;   abnormal epiphysis cerebri morphology;   abnormal glandula pinealis morphology;   abnormal pineal body morphology
 narrow_synonym: pineal gland dysplasia
 broad_synonym: abnormal pineal glands



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  mammalian phenotype 5422
    endocrine/exocrine gland phenotype 394
      abnormal gland morphology 333
        abnormal endocrine gland morphology 164
          abnormal neuroendocrine gland morphology 42
            abnormal secretory circumventricular organ morphology 0
              abnormal pineal gland morphology 0
                abnormal pineal gland development 0
                abnormal pinealocyte morphology 0
                absent pineal gland 0
                enlarged pineal gland 0
                increased pineal gland tumor incidence 0
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  mammalian phenotype 5422
    nervous system phenotype 380
      abnormal nervous system morphology 217
        abnormal brain morphology 139
          abnormal forebrain morphology 83
            abnormal diencephalon morphology 45
              abnormal epithalamus morphology 0
                abnormal pineal gland morphology 0
                  abnormal pineal gland development 0
                  abnormal pinealocyte morphology 0
                  absent pineal gland 0
                  enlarged pineal gland 0
                  increased pineal gland tumor incidence 0
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