{"id":8072,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_type_ii_cells\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:44","slug":"golgi_type_ii_cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_type_ii_cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Golgi type II cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inhibitory interneurons of the cerebellar cortex at the top of the granular layer deep to the Purkinje cells containing the neurotransmitter GABA. &nbsp;These cells have extensive processes that extend well into the molecular layer and the lower parts of the granular layer. &nbsp;They are activated by mossy fibers and climbing fibers &nbsp;so as to provide feedfoward inhibition to the granule cells (which shortens information coming into the cerebellar cortex via mossy fibbers), and by parallel fibbers that enable recurrent inhibition to the Golgi type II cells. &nbsp;Yet another discovery by <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.brown.edu\/confluence\/download\/attachments\/7953\/golgi-lecture.pdf\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/wiki.brown.edu\/confluence\/download\/attachments\/7953\/golgi-lecture.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camillo Golgi<\/a> (1844-1926). &nbsp;The figure below depicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2845060\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2845060\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramon y Cajal<\/a>&#8216;s drawings of whose original drawings of Golgi type I and II cells.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image052.golgi-type-II-cellsxjpg.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">Golgi type I (A, B) and Golgi type II (C) cells<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cerebellum_-anatomy-\">Cerebellum (anatomy)<\/a>, <a href=\"climbing_fibers\">Climbing fibers<\/a>, Gamma amino butyric acid (GABA), <a href=\"granular_layer\">Granular layer<\/a>, <a href=\"granule_cells\">Granule cells<\/a>, <a href=\"interneurons\">Interneurons<\/a>, <a href=\"molecular_layer\">Molecular layer<\/a>, <a href=\"mossy_fibers\">Mossy fibers<\/a>, <a href=\"parallel_fibers\">Parallel fibers<\/a>, <a href=\"purkinje_cells\">Purkinje cells<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhibitory interneurons of the cerebellar cortex at the top of the granular layer deep to the Purkinje cells containing the neurotransmitter GABA. &nbsp;These cells have extensive processes that extend well into the molecular layer and the lower parts of the granular layer. &nbsp;They are activated by mossy fibers and climbing fibers &nbsp;so as to provide &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_type_ii_cells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Golgi type II cells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}