Purkinje cells
Células de Purkinje
- Date
- 1837 · confidence high
- Place
- Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia, Poland
- Credited to
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A description of the large neurons with a nucleus and tree-like branching in the cerebellar cortex, presented in 1837 at a naturalists' meeting in Prague. They were among the first neurons identified as such.
Purkyně reported them in Prague in 1837 and studied them from his chair at Breslau; the function of these cells as the output of the cerebellum was established later.
What it led to
- histological study of the cerebellum
- images used by Golgi and Cajal in the neuron doctrine