granule cell
Noun
Meaning
granule cell (plural granule cells)
(neuroanatomy) Any of several unrelated types of small neurons in various parts of the brain which have very small cell bodies.
Examples
A granule cell emits only four to five dendrites, each of which ends in an enlargement called a dendritic claw.
Each glomerulus has a mossy fiber rosette at its center, and up to 20 granule cell dendritic claws contacting it.
The dentate granule cell axons (called mossy fibers) pass on the information from the EC on thorny spines that exit from the proximal apical dendrite of CA3 pyramidal cells.
Thus, the information in the granule cell population activity state is the same as the information in the mossy fibers, but recoded in a much more expansive way.