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    Purkinje cells or Purkinje neurons, named for Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně who identified them in 1837, are a unique type of prominent large...
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    called the subendocardium. The Purkinje fibers are specialized conducting fibers composed of electrically excitable cells. They are larger than cardiomyocytes...
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    Cerebellum (redirect from Purkinje layer)
    with a highly regular arrangement, the most important being Purkinje cells and granule cells. This complex neural organization gives rise to a massive signal-processing...
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    granule-cellPurkinje-cell synapses onto the intermediate and distal dendrites of Purkinje cells using glutamate as a neurotransmitter. Layer 4 granule cells...
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    synapses onto Purkinje cell dendrites. The middle layer contains only one type of cell body—that of the large Purkinje cell. Purkinje cells are the primary...
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    with Purkinje cells. Cerebellar basket cell axons fire inhibitory neurotransmitters such as GABA to Purkinje cell axons, and inhibits the Purkinje cell. Purkinje...
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    (Czech: [ˈjan ˈɛvaŋɡɛˌlɪsta ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ; also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (17 or 18 December 1787 – 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist...
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    These cells synapse onto the dendritic trees of Purkinje cells and send inhibitory signals. Stellate cells are derived from dividing progenitor cells in...
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    The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced /pərˈkɪndʒi/) is the tendency for...
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    Granule-cell to Purkinje-cell synapses or gcPc synapses are the junctions that form the synapse in the cerebellum between granule cells and Purkinje cells. These...
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    Neuron (redirect from Nerve cell)
    pyramidal cells, Purkinje cells, and anterior horn cells Golgi II: neurons whose axonal process projects locally; the best example is the granule cell Anaxonic:...
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  • Purkinje is a name attributed to several biological features, so named for their discovery by Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně: Purkinje cells...
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    cerebellum Purkinje cells and interneuronal Golgi cells predominate. Glial cells are the supporting cells of the neurons. The three types of glial cells are...
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  • the Purkinje cells. The firing of these basket cells, which occurs more rapidly than in the Purkinje cells, draws current across the Purkinje cell and...
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  • including, among others, gluten ataxia, autoimmunity to Purkinje cells or other neural cells in the cerebellum, CNS vasculitis, multiple sclerosis, infection...
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  • Climbing fibers ultimately project to both the deep cerebellar nuclei and Purkinje cells (PCs) in the cerebellar cortex. The pontine nuclei (PN) can support...
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    epithelial cells, Golgi epithelial cells, or radial astrocytes) are unipolar astrocytes derived from radial glia that are intimately associated with Purkinje cells...
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    the cerebellum referred to as a Purkinje Cell. During development, there are multiple climbing fibers on a purkinje cell, however these are pruned off during...
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    cerebellar nuclei and Purkinje cells. Each climbing fiber will form synapses with 1-10 Purkinje cells. Early in development, Purkinje cells are innervated by...
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  • Purkyně is best known for his 1837 discovery of Purkinje cells. Theodor Schwann, discoverer of the Schwann cell Yoshinori Ohsumi, Nobel Prize winner for work...
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    adult bird. (D) Higher magnification of (C) showing Purkinje cell. (E) Dendrite of the Purkinje cell. Drawing of the neural circuitry of the rodent hippocampus...
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  • months to years and which often reflects complete loss of Purkinje cells. The anti-Purkinje cell antibodies originally described in PCD led to the hypothesis...
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  • shown to have degeneration of the axons of their cerebellar Purkinje cells, although Purkinje cell number remains normal. The strong breed predilection suggests...
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    to the Golgi cells by reentering the higher granular layer through thin collateral branches that reach slightly below the Purkinje cells. Three different...
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    multipolar neurons are found in autonomic ganglia. Dogiel cells Ganglion cell Purkinje cell Pyramidal cell Neural tissue "Lab 1 Neurohistology - Neurons". vanat...
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    dendritic trees of Purkinje cells, contacting one of every 3–5 that they pass, making a total of 80–100 synaptic connections with Purkinje cell dendritic spines...
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  • receptors and their elimination from the surface of the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell (PF-PC) synapse. It is highly important for neurons to maintain a variable...
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    The list of human cell types provides an enumeration and description of the various specialized cells found within the human body, highlighting their...
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    Prominent alterations in Purkinje cell mitochondrial proteins coincide with the symptomatic phase of the disease. Purkinje cells in SCA1 mice also undergo...
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  • "depolarized-induced suppression of inhibition (DSI)" in CA1 pyramidal cells and cerebellar Purkinje cells. In a laboratory setting step depolarizations the soma have...
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