Subcommissural organ
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| Brain: Subcommissural organ | ||
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| Mesal aspect of a brain sectioned in the median sagittal plane. (Subcommissural organ not labeled, but region is visible, near the pineal .) | ||
| Latin | organum subcommissurale | |
| NeuroNames | hier-474 | |
| MeSH | Subcommissural+organ | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | o_06/12596276 | |
The subcommissural organ is a circumventricular organ consisting of ependymal cells which secrete somatostatin.
It is named for its location relative to the posterior commissure.
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