For their analyses, the scientists specifically colored the places of origin of axons of so -
called pyramidal cells in the hippocampus.
BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron
called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).
A neuron
called a pyramidal cell, for instance, has a bushy branch of dendrites (orange in 3 - D computer reconstruction, above) reaching up from its cell body (white circle).
Not exact matches
The team, led by CSHL Professor Z. Josh Huang and including researcher Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, focused on dense crowds of excitatory
cells called pyramidal neurons — several hundred of which can connect with a single chandelier
cell.
A recent generation of studies of postmortem brain tissue from people with schizophrenia, particularly from the laboratory of Professor David Lewis and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, have shed light on schizophrenia - related abnormalities in the interplay of the main excitatory neurons,
pyramidal neurons, and a specific class of inhibitory nerve
cells,
called chandelier
cells, in the prefrontal cortex.