part of part of has part has part capable of capable of contributes to morphology of pinealocyte interstitial cell of pineal gland melatonin biosynthetic process Hyperoartia Homo sapiens epithalamus pineal body http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Illu_pituitary_pineal_glands.jpg https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-female/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-f-brain.glb https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-male/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-m-brain.glb BTO:0001067 EV:0100221 galen:PinealGland neuronames:297 frontal organ epiphyseal A circumscribed swelling, includes the pineal primordium that appears late in the segmentation period in the dorsal midline of the diencephalon. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO] MESH:D010870 epiphysial lobulated in humans, homogeneous in mouse. Calcifies with age in humans. GAID:453 pineal gland Pi corpus pineale NCIT:C12398 DHBA:10460 BAMS:PIN MA:0000175 relationship loss: part_of pineal complex (TAO:0001359)[TAO] EFO:0000865 glandula pinealis XAO:0000160 EHDAA2:0001466 epiphysis cerebri NLXANAT:1010009 EHDAA:7523 SCTID:181126002 UMLS:C0031939 CALOHA:TS-0789 conarium pineal Anatomical structure which is a medial outgrowth of the thalamus on the dorsal surface of the brain. This structure is light sensitive and secretes melatonin when exposed to prolonged darkness.[AAO] VHOG:0000051 A midline, cone like structure located in the dorso-caudal roof of the 3rd ventricle, attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior commissures. The stalk contains nerve fibers, blood vessels, connective tissue and parenchymal cells (Paxinos, The Rat Central Nervous System, 2nd ed, pg 399). AAO:0010549 pineal gland (Galen) EMAPA:18778 MAT:0000448 pineal organ BAMS:Pi EV:0100131 epiphysis MBA:953 BIRNLEX:1184 TAO:0000019 The pineal gland has evolved from a part of the epiphyseal complex of anamniotes, which includes a median light-receptive pineal eye, parietal eye, or both.[well established][VHOG] BM:P ZFA:0000019 FMA:62033 Wikipedia:Pineal_gland UBERON:0001905 HBA:4532 stirnorgan lateral habenular nucleus medial habenular nucleus gland of diencephalon secretory circumventricular organ pineal complex