Chandelier cell

Chandelier cell [r]: A type of GABAergic interneurons in the cerebral cortex of mammals -- with an axon arbor that resembles a chandelier -- that contact the axon initial segment of pyramidal cells. [e]

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(CC) Image: Woodruff and Yuste, 2008
Reconstruction of a biocytin-filled chandelier cell from a mouse neocortical brain slice. Soma and dendrites labeled in blue, axon arbor in red. Chandelier cells have characteristic terminal portions of their axon, which form short vertical rows of boutons resembling candlesticks. Each candlestick innervates a single axon initial segment of a pyramidal cell.