Spinal-cord and brainstem excitatory axons {mossy fiber} synapse on more than 40 granule-cell glomeruli and deep-cerebellar nuclei. Mossy fiber also directly contacts 250 Purkinje cells but cannot fire them. Mossy fiber influences 200,000 Purkinje cells. Mossy fibers have sensory properties, but Purkinje and nuclear cells do not respond to somatosensory stimulation.
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