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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Empty & Hairy Baskets | 1 Basket fibers, Purkinje (Case 5) H&E
In the cerebellum, the multipolar basket cells have branching processes, which are dilated and knotty. Basket cells synapse on the cell bodies of Purkinje cells and are thought to be inhibitory. Normal Purkinje cell bodies shown here are enveloped by a thin capsule of presynaptic elements (arrows). (H&E)
