gut-associated lymphoid tissue in dogs

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue in digestive tract. includes Peyer's patches, appendix, and solitary lymph nodules[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gut-associated lymphoid tissue is

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue in digestive tract. includes Peyer's patches, appendix, and solitary lymph nodules[GO]. The atlas records it as a lymphatic at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the gut-associated lymphoid tissue is

It sits within the digestive and lymphatic & immune systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the gut-associated lymphoid tissue connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of digestive tract.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gut-associated lymphoid tissue. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as gut associated lymphoid tissue and GALT. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001962, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the gut-associated lymphoid tissue?

It sits within the digestive and lymphatic & immune systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the gut-associated lymphoid tissue connect to?

Part of: digestive tract.

Is the gut-associated lymphoid tissue the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.