Layers of the cerebellar cortex

What are the three layers of the cerebellar cortex?

• Outermost molecular cell layer

• Middle Purkinje cell layer

• Innermost granular cell layer

What types of cells are located in each of these layers? 

The molecular layer contains

(1) stellate cells,

(2) basket cells,

(3) dendrites of Purkinje cells,

(4) dendrites of Golgi type II cells, and

(5) axons of granule cells

The Purkinje layer contains the cell bodies of Purkinje cells.

The granular layer contains

(6) granule cells,

(7) Golgi type II cells, and

(8) glomeruli (synaptic complexes that contain mossy fibers, axons and dendrites of Golgi type II cells, and dendrites of granule cells).