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