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- adjective characterizes a connection between two
neurons as involving an intermediate neuron.
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Examples
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They also synapse onto Martinotti cells, which in turn synapse with other pyramidal cells, making a "disynaptic" connection between the two pyramidal cells.
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The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.
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Convergence on propriospinal neurons transmitting disynaptic excitation from the corticospinal tract and other dsescending tracts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009
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