An Interneuron (IMAGE)

University of Bonn

An Interneuron

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This is an interneuron (bright, with long appendages) from the hippocampus of the rat. The finely branched axon (top left cloud) surrounds the cell bodies of pyramidal cells and can inhibit these effectively.

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© Leonie Pothmann/Uni Bonn

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