Term Information

Accession
GO:0044301
Name
climbing fiber
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
climbing fibre
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The axon of inferior olive neuron that projects to the cerebellar cortex, largely via the inferior cerebellar peduncle. They range in diameter from 1-3 um and are myelinated until they enter the granule cell layer. They give off collaterals to the deep cerebellar nuclei. They synapse extensively with the dendrites of Purkinje cells in the molecular layer, where each fiber branches repeatedly to climb along the Purkinje cell dendritic tree. Each Purkinje cell is innervated by only a single climbing fiber. Source: NIF_Subcellular:nlx_subcell_20090203
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0044301 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of climbing fiber (GO:0044301)
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climbing fiber [is_a relation] is_a  axon (GO:0030424)

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NIF_Subcellular
nlx_subcell_20090203