Stellate cell

Stellate cell as different cell types are referred to in the anatomy and histology:

  • Kupffer cells ( old name Kupffer stellate cell ), a special form of phagocytes, which rest the sinusoids of the liver,
  • Stellate cell ( cerebellum ) is not axially structured, inhibitory interneurons in the molecular layer of the cerebellar cortex, which act as switching cells,
  • Certain interneurons in certain layers of the cerebral cortex,
  • Astrocytes (also called spider cells), numerically significant part of the neuroglia.
  • Disambiguation
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