GOLGI CELL TYPES 



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bodies of the peripheral motor neurones in the spinal cord. Cells 

 of this type are familiarly known as the " Deiters' cells." 



FIG. 371. GOLGI CELL, TYPE i. 

 c, collaterals ; w, neuraxis. Golgi's stain. (After Kolliker.) 



b. Golgi cells, Type II (Golgi cells), viz., those having short 

 neuraxes. 



The neuraxes of cells of this type do not leave the grey nucleus 

 in which they take origin. Their branching begins almost imme- 

 diately and their end brushes are found in the immediate vicinity 

 of their cell body. These cells undoubtedly serve to place neigh- 

 boring neurones in close physiological relation, whereas the cells 

 of the first type connect distant parts. 



The size of a nerve cell is thought to bear a general relation to 

 the length of its neuraxis, the larger cells possessing the longer 

 neuraxes. The cells of Golgi's Type I are therefore larger than 

 those of Type II. Likewise the cells of the motor tracts, whose 



