Cerebellar Glial Cells

Abstract

Cerebellar neuroglial cells were initially described by Bergmann (1857), Golgi (1885), Gierke (1886), Van Gehuchten (1891), Retzius (1892c), Weigert (1895), Ramón y Cajal (1896a), Terrazas (1897), Fañanás and Ramón y Cajal (1916), Jakob (1928), Schroeder (1929), and Jansen and Brodal (1958). More recently, a complete account of transmission electron microscopic (TEM) features and stereograms of Golgi preparations, performed by high voltage electron microscopy, was given by Palay and Chan-Palay (1974). Hanke and Reichenbach (1987) and Siegel et al. (1991), using the rapid Golgi technique, described the Bergmann cells in the cerebella of rat of various ages, measured the length and diameter of Bergmann fibers, and quantified the presence of bushy lateral protrusions. Suarez et al. (1992) reported, by means of immunocytochemical methods, a different response of astrocytes and Bergmann cells to portocaval shunt.