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Granule cell — Not to be confused with granular cells in the kidney. Drawing of Purkinje cells (A) and granule cells (B) from pigeon cerebellum by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1899. Instituto Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. In neuroscience, granule cells… … Wikipedia
layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
Granule (solar physics) — Granules on the photosphere of the Sun are caused by convection currents (thermal columns, Bénard cells) of plasma within the Sun s convective zone. The grainy appearance of the solar photosphere is produced by the tops of these convective cells… … Wikipedia
granule cells — 1. diminutive stellate cells found chiefly in the granular layers of the cerebral and cerebellar cortices. 2. small nerve cells without axons, whose bodies are in the granular layer of the olfactory bulb; they have many dendrites that synapse… … Medical dictionary
Cerebellum granule cell — Neuron: Cerebellar granule cell Granule cells, parallel fibers, and flattened dendritic trees of Purkinje cells Location Cer … Wikipedia
Outer nuclear layer — Section of retina. (Outer nuclear layer labeled at right, fourth from the bottom.) … Wikipedia
Lamellar granule — Lamellar granules (otherwise known as lamellar bodies, keratinosomes or Odland bodies) are secretory organelles found in type II pneumocytes and keratinocytes. They are oblong structures, appearing about 300 400 nm in width and 100 150 nm in… … Wikipedia
Granular layer (cerebral cortex) — The granular layer is one of the layers of the cerebral cortex consisting of granule cells, which are also known as granular neurons … Wikipedia
internal granular layer of olfactory bulb — the innermost layer of the olfactory bulb, adjacent to the beginning of the olfactory tract; it consists of rows of axons from mitral and tufted cells alternating with rows of cell bodies and dendrites of granule cells … Medical dictionary
Anatomy of the cerebellum — This article gives a detailed description of the anatomy of the cerebellum. The structure of the cerebellum can be viewed at three levels. At the level of large scale anatomy, the cerebellum consists of a tightly folded and crumpled layer of… … Wikipedia
