These contacts have the appearance of a classic Gray's type 1 synapse, indicating they are glutamatergic and excitatory. Sensory information relayed from the pons through the mossy fibers to the granule cells is then sent along the parallel fibers to the Purkinje cells for processing.
These synaptic contacts resemble a typical Gray's type 1 synapse, indicating their glutamatergic and excitatory properties. The sensory information originating from the pons through mossy fibers to granule cells is then conveyed along parallel fibers to Purkinje cells for processing.