Golgi cell

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Golgi cell
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.
Dorlands/Elsevier c_18/12223524

In neuroscience, Golgi cells are inhibitory interneurons found within the granular layer of the cerebellum. These cells synapse onto the soma of granule cells. They receive excitatory input from mossy fibres, also synapsing on granule cells, and parallel fibres, which are long granule cell axons. Thereby this circuitry allows for feed-forward and feed-back inhibition of granule cells.

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