A narrow stripe of cells that lies between the prospective dorsal and ventral thalami. This boundary contains signals that pattern the prethalamic and thalamic territories of the future mid-diencephalon. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16452095 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11425897 http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0022006 GOC:cls GOC:dgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_limitans_intrathalamica GOC:jid GOC:mtg_15jun06 GOC:dph http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000021 ]
Synonyms: ZLI
Term information
- ZFA:0001344
- XAO:0004305
- EMAPA:36604
- TAO:0001344
- Wikipedia:Zona_limitans_intrathalamica
Modeling this as a line may not be correct - see http://code.google.com/p/caro2/issues/detail?id=17
Term relations
- anatomical junction and adjacent to some ventral thalamus and adjacent to some dorsal thalamus
- ectoderm-derived structure
- anatomical junction
- part of some dorsal plus ventral thalamus
- adjacent to some ventral thalamus
- adjacent to some dorsal thalamus