Purkinje cells unipolar brush cell

The processes responsible for the selection of the appropriate output for a particular mossy fiber-parallel fiber input may function at the level of the synapses of the mossy fibers with granule cells, unipolar brush cells, or Golgi cells and at the level of the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse. Several systems may be involved in this selection process. Nitric oxide, that is synthetized by subsets of granule cells (Schilling et ah, 1994 Hawkes and Turner, 1994) and in stellate and basket cells (Bredt et ah, 1990) (Section... 

Fig. 69. A. Monoclonal antibody Rat-302 recognizes a subset of neurons, later identified as unipolar brush cells, restricted to the granular layer of the flocculus and the vermis of rat cerebellum (arrows), whereas in other areas of the cerebellum no positive cells are found. B. In contrast, antibody Rat-303 recognizes Golgi-II cells in the granular layer (g) in the entire cerebellum. C. Rat-302 also recognizes Purkinje cells outside the caudal vermis and the flocculus. D. Rat-302 positive cells in the vermis. E and F. Unipolar brush cells recognized by Rat-302 have a round cell body and short dendrites ending in a spray of appendages (arrows), g, granular layer m, molecular layer p, Purkinje cell layer. Scale bars 500 fim in A and B, 50 /rm in C and D. 10 /rm in E and F. Hockfield (1987).

Fig. 2. Diagrams of the cerebellar circuit. Inhibitory neurons are indicated in black. A. Main circuit. B. Cortical interneurons and recurrent pathways. Abbreviations B = basket cell cf = climbing fiber G = Golgi cell GR = granule cell 10 = inferior olive mf = mossy fiber nc = nucleocortical axons no = nucleo-olivary axons pcc = recurrent Purkinje cell axon collaterals P cell = Purkinje cell PCN = precerebellar nuclei pf = parallel fiber pi = pinceau of basket cell axons S = stellate cell UBC = unipolar brush cell I = extracerebellar mossy fiber 2 = nucleo-cortical mossy fiber 3 = mossy fiber collateral of uni-polar brush cell.

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