Basket cell
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{{Infobox_neuron
|neuron_name = Basket cell
|image_neuron = Gray706.png
|caption_neuron = Transverse section of a cerebellar folium (Basket cell labeled at bottom left)
|location = [[Cerebellum]]
|function = Inhibitory interneuron
|neurotranmitter = [[GABA]]
|morphology = multipolar
|afferents = [[Parallel fiber]]s
|efferents = [[Purkinje cells]]
}}
'''Basket cells''' are inhibitory [[GABA|GABAergic]] [[interneurons]] found in several brain regions: the [[Cerebellum#Molecular_layer|molecular layer]] of the [[cerebellum]], the [[hippocampus]], and the [[cerebral cortex|cortex]]. In the cerebellum, they synapse on the [[cell body|cell bodies]] of [[Purkinje cell]]s, and are multipolar and stellate, with freely branching [[dendrite]]s, which are dilated and knotty. Hippocampal basket cells target [[soma]]ta and proximal [[dendrite]]s of [[pyramidal neuron]]s. Cortical and hippocampal basket cells are [[parvalbumin]]-expressing and fast-[[action potential|spiking]].
[[Image:CerebCircuit.png|thumb|230px|right|Microcircuitry of the cerebellum. [[Excitatory synapses]] are denoted by (+) and [[inhibitory synapses]] by (-).<BR>Basket cell labeled ''BC'']]
==External links==
* {{eMedicineDictionary|Basket+cell}}
==References==
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{{Cerebellum}}
[[Category:CNS neurons]]
[[ja:籠細胞]]
[[ru:Корзинчатый нейрон]]