Pyramidal Cells (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Pyramidal Cells

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Specialized nerve cells of the mammalian brain, called pyramidal cells, are involved in memory-guided navigation. Here, the axons of three individual pyramidal cells (red, green, and magenta) are traced from their target regions in the brain back to their dendritic origin (white) in the subiculum, a sub-region of the hippocampus.

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M. Cembrowski et al./Cell 2018

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