Connections Between Purkinje Cells and Climbing Fibers (IMAGE)

Hokkaido University

Connections Between Purkinje Cells and Climbing Fibers

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In the normal mice (left panel), connections between Purkinje cells (asterisks) and climbing fibers or parallel fibers are thoroughly wrapped by Bergmann glia (colored in red), whereas they are exposed to their neighbors in the knockout mice lacking GLAST (right panel, arrowheads).

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Miyazaki T. et al., <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i> of the United States of America, June 27, 2017.

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