Basket cell
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| Microcircuitry of the cerebellum. Excitatory synapses are denoted by (+) and inhibitory synapses by (-). MF: Mossy fiber. DCN: Deep cerebellar nuclei. IO: Inferior olive. CF: Climbing fiber. GC: Granule cell. PF: Parallel fiber. PC: Purkinje cell. GgC: Golgi cell. SC: Stellate cell. BC: Basket cell. |
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| Transverse section of a cerebellar folium. (Basket cell labeled at bottom left.) | |
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Basket cells are inhibitory GABAergic interneurons found in the molecular layer of the cerebellum. They synapse on the cell bodies of Purkinje cells, and are multipolar and stellate, with freely branching dendrites.
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