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• a  toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal)
  the ventral aspect of the human body
  the liver is somewhat ventral in position
  ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped
• a  nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism

• Regardless of their content, statements that the subjects believed lit up the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a location in the brain best known for processing reward .
• The first is the ventral tegmental, a clump of tissue in the brain's lower regions, which is the body's central refinery for dopamine.
• The ads that elicited little response in the ventral striatum, according to the UCLA study, included Robert Goulet 's turn as an office gremlin for Emerald Nuts and Sprint 's .

• adaxial

• dorsal
• abaxial

News & Articles

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• FOX 29's Sheinelle Jones' Personal Story
  Last year, Fox 29's Sheinelle Jones gave birth to beautiful twins.  As a result of carrying those sweet babies, she developed a ventral hernia.After much thought, research and interviewing, Sheinelle decided
  June 19, 2013 - FOX 29 Philadelphia

Quotes

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• Miguel Nicolelis in WebWire (press release)
  This suggests that the calorie-dependent release of dopamine in the ventral striatum has an impact on the response properties of populations of neurons in the same areasaid Miguel Nicolelis, professor in the Duke Departments of Neurobiology...
• Helen Fisher in Forbes
  Staring at their lover's image "lit up a lot of brain areas, but the two most important ones were, first, the ventral tegmental area, a little factory near the base of the brain that makes dopamine, a natural stimulant; and the caudate nucleus, a...
• Lucy Brown in Science Daily (press release)
  Our evidence suggests that both hypotheses are correct,says Lucy Brown, PhD, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "We found specific activity in regions of the right caudate nucleus and right ventral tegmental area....