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. 2002 Oct 4;545(Pt 2):581–593. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.028423

Figure 1. Morphological relation of Bergmann glia and Purkinje neurons.

Figure 1

A, schematic drawing of a Purkinje neuron (red) and Bergmann glial cells (green) with close somatic contact. The somata of both cell types are positioned in the Purkinje cell layer and their processes project throughout the molecular layer up to the pia mater. Paired recordings of a Purkinje neuron and a Bergmann glial cell allowed the study of the influence of glial cells on the spontaneous synaptic input to the neighbouring neuron. This input arises predominantly from the local inhibitory interneurons (basket and stellate cells) and not from the excitatory parallel fibre synapses. B, three-dimensional reconstruction of a double labelling of a Bergmann glial cell (Alexa 488, green) and a Purkinje neuron (Alexa 568, red) showing that the processes of a Bergmann glial cell overlap with part of the dendritic tree of a Purkinje neuron.