The most superficial stratum in the hippocampus. Here the perforant path fibers form synapses onto the distal, apical dendrites of pyramidal cells. [ https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/1224 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_anatomy#Hippocampal_cells_and_layers ]
Synonyms: hippocampus stratum moleculare hippocampal molecular layer molecular layer of hippocampus
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- layer of hippocampus and part of some hippocampus stratum lacunosum moleculare and immediately superficial to some hippocampus stratum lacunosum