Purkinje cells or Purkinje neurons, named for Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně who identified them in 1837,[citation needed] are a unique type...
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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-cell–Purkinje-cell synapses onto the intermediate and distal dendrites of Purkinje cells using glutamate as a neurotransmitter. Layer 4 granule cells...
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Anatomy of the cerebellum (section Purkinje layer)
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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Jan Evangelista Purkyně (redirect from Johannes Purkinje)
(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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molecular layer in the cerebellum. Cerebellar stellate cells synapse onto the dendritic trees of Purkinje cells and send inhibitory signals. Stellate neurons are...
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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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The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced /pərˈkɪndʒi/) is the tendency for...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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dentate nuclei. These nuclei receive inhibitory (GABAergic) inputs from Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex and excitatory (glutamatergic) inputs from...
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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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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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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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Ernesto Lugaro in the early 20th century. Lugaro cells are found just beneath the layer of Purkinje cells between the molecular layer and the granular layer...
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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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neuronal cell types are not recognized by NeuN antibodies, such as Purkinje cells, stellate and Golgi cells of the cerebellum, olfactory Mitral cells, retinal...
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Multipolar neuron (redirect from Multipolar cell)
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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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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