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 are traced from their target regions in the brain (green = nucleus accumbens; magenta = retrosplenial cortex; red = anterodorsal nuclei of the thalamus), 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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