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Extracortical afferent systems terminate in the cerebellar cortex by two different kinds of terminal arborizations and endings: 1. the mossy and 2. the climbing fibers. Very little of significance was added to the description by Cajal (1911) of the mossy fibers until it became possible to analyse their origin by the use of secondary degeneration (Miskolczy, 1931), and until further investigation could be undertaken by the aid of the electron microscope (Gray, 1961). With the climbing fibers it was different: reinvestigation by Scheibel and Scheibel (1954) have changed to a considerable extent the classical views concerning their connexions. Some but not all of their conclusions have been recently substantiated under the EM (Hámori and Szentágothai, 1966 a).
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Eccles, J.C., Ito, M., Szentágothai, J. (1967). Termination of Afferent Fibers. In: The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13147-3_3
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