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island of Calleja
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One of the seven small groups of granule cells in the polymorph layer of the olfactory tubercle and one large group, the insula magna, which lies along the border between septum, nucleus accumbens and nucleus of the diagonal band. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/80412 ]
Term info
Label
island of Calleja
Synonyms
- Calleja island
- islands of Calleja
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Islands_of_Calleja_Rat.jpg
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
insulae olfactoriae, insula callejae, islands of Calleja (olfactory tubercle)
id
UBERON:0001881
taxon notes
The islands of Calleja are located within the olfactory tubercle in most species; however, in primates these islands are located within the nucleus accumbens, since the olfactory tubercle is absent or extremely rudimentary in the brains of primates