Purkinje cell
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Purkinje cells or Purkinje neurons, named for Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně who identified them in 1837, are a unique type of prominent, large neuron located in the cerebellar cortex of t
Drawing of pigeon Purkinje cells (A) by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Neurons (Purkinje cells) located in the cerebellum
Silver stain of cerebellum showing Purkinje cells
Purkinje cells. Bielschowsky stain.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiol
Purkinje cell
…Purkinje cell Drawing of pigeon Purkinje cells (A) by Santiago Ramon y Cajal Details Pronunciation Often pronounced as pur-KIN-jee; but Czech pronunciation is (Czech: cells Location Cerebellum Shape Flat dendritic arbor Function…
Ramón y Cajal in 1899.
Ramón y Cajal, captain in the Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1874
Self-portrait as a student, 1870s
J. Harley Williams called Cajal the “Don Quixote of the microscope”.