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dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation

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Part of the hippocampal formation forming a 'V' or 'U' shaped structure with the opening bounded by hippocampal area CA3. It consists of 3 layers from superficial to deep: molecular, granule cell and polymorphic or hilar layer. [ BIRNLEX:1178 ]

Synonyms: dentate area (dentate gyrus) dentate gyrus area dentata

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

comment

BTO says dentate gyrus = fascia dentata + hilus. Note that GO classifies dentate gyrus development under hippocampus development

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/HippocampalRegions.jpg

external definition

The dentate gyrus is one of two interlocking gyri of the hippocampus. It contains granule cells, which project to the pyramidal cells and interneurons of the CA3 region of the ammon gyrus[GO][GO:0021542].

has narrow synonym

fascia dentata

has related synonym

hippocampal dentate gyrus

gyrus dentatus

dentate area

id

UBERON:0001885

mutually spatially disjoint with

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001954

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002601