Golgi Cells

Abstract

The Golgi cells or large stellate cells of the cerebellar granule cell layer have been extensively studied with the light microscope by Golgi (1883), Kölliker (1890), Van Gehuchten (1891), Retzius (1892b), and Ramón y Cajal (1955). Fox (1962), Eccles, Ito,and Szentágothai (1967), Mugnaini (1972), Castejón and Castejón (1972), Palay and Chan-Palay (1974), Castejón (1976), Sturrock (1990), and Alvarez Otero and Anadon (1992), among others, have carried out further electron and light microscopic studies. Some conventional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations of Golgi cells have been published in general studies dealing with the cytoarchitectonic arrangement and intracortical circuits of the cerebellar cortex (Castejón, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1996; Castejón & Apkarian, 1992; Castejón & Caraballo, 1980a, 1980b; Castejón & Castejón, 1991; Castejón & Valero, 1980; Hojo, 1994). More recently, a detailed confocal, light, SEM and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) study of Golgi cells of several vertebrates has been reported (Castejón & Castejón, 2000).