Basket cell

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Basket cell
Transverse section of a cerebellar folium (Basket cell labeled at bottom left)
Location	Cerebellum
Function	Inhibitory interneuron
Morphology	unipolar
Presynaptic connections	Parallel fibers
Postsynaptic connections	Purkinje cells

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.

Microcircuitry of the cerebellum. Excitatory synapses are denoted by (+) and inhibitory synapses by (-).
Basket cell labeled BC

[edit] External links

• Diagram at uth.tmc.edu
• Dictionary at eMedicine Basket+cell

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