hippocampus stratum lacunosum moleculare
Layer of the hippocampus lying just superficial to the stratum radiatum and bounded by the pial surface of the hippocampus. The fibers of the perforant pathway fibers from entorhinal cortex and several other brain areas terminate in this layer. Adapted from Paxinos, G. The rat central nervous system, 2nd ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995, pg. 460). [ BIRNLEX:1359 ]
Synonyms: lacunar-molecular layer of hippocampus, stratum hippocampi moleculare et substratum lacunosum, stratum lacunosum-moleculare, stratum lacunosum moleculare
Term info
- BIRNLEX:1359
- FMA:83149
- neuronames:2456 (https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/1223)
Here the perforant path fibers form synapses onto the distal, apical dendrites of pyramidal cells.[WP]
uberon
UBERON:0007640
hippocampus stratum lacunosum moleculare, Lacunar-molecular layer of hippocampus
Term relations
- layer of hippocampus and has part some hippocampus molecular layer and has part some hippocampus stratum lacunosum and immediately superficial to some hippocampus stratum radiatum
- layer of hippocampus
- has part some hippocampus stratum lacunosum
- has part some hippocampus molecular layer
- in deep part of some Ammon's horn
- immediately superficial to some hippocampus stratum radiatum
- part of some Ammon's horn