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perforant path

perforant path The perforant path is a bundle of nerve fibers that begins in the lateral entorhinal cortex, passes through the hippocampal subiculum, and continues into the hippocampus.

The perforant path is a bundle of nerve fibers that begins in the lateral entorhinal cortex, passes through the hippocampal subiculum, and continues into the hippocampus. There it connects with fibers leading to the dentate gyrus, where the pathway ends; it is also called the perforating fasciculus.