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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

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:61922
  • SCTID:279211002
  • EFO:0001366
  • BAMS:DG
  • NCIT:C32452
  • neuronames:179
  • EMAPA:19037
  • BIRNLEX:1178
  • MA:0000190
  • GAID:624
  • BM:Tel-DG
  • MESH:D018891
  • HBA:12891
  • DHBA:10295
  • Wikipedia:Dentate_gyrus
  • BTO:0002615
  • DMBA:16115
  • UMLS:C0152314 (ncithesaurus:Dentate_Gyrus)
  • MBA:726
  • CALOHA:TS-2388
  • BTO:0002496
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001954, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002601

UBPROP 0000001

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].

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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

has related synonym

hippocampal dentate gyrus, dentate area, gyrus dentatus

has narrow synonym

fascia dentata

id

UBERON:0001885

prefLabel

Dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation