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marginal zone of spleen

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001251

The zone between the red and white pulp of the spleen containing numerous macrophages and lymphocytes, and a rich plexus of sinusoids supplied by white pulp arterioles carrying blood-borne antigens. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0002362 ]

Synonyms: junctional zone of spleen, spleen marginal zone

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000012

WP says - (Some sources consider it to be the part of red pulp which borders on the white pulp, while other sources consider it to be neither red pulp nor white pulp.) - we use the adjacency relation here so it overlaps neither. FMA considers this an anatomical line.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Gray1191.png

has broad synonym

marginal zone

id

UBERON:0001251

prefLabel

Marginal zone of spleen

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606