Neuroreport
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Lugaro cells are fusiform neurons located just beneath the Purkinje cell layer. Their axon projects profusely in the molecular layer and emits some collaterals in the granular layer. ⋯ The axonal varicosities of this cell form multiple symmetrical synaptic junctions with basket and stellate cell somata and proximal dendrites, and, perhaps, with the molecular layer dendrites of Golgi interneurons. Lugaro cells thus seem to exert a feed-back inhibitory control on Purkinje cells.