Cajal cells

Interstitial cells of Cajal (purple) in the rat intestinal wall; bottom left digitally stained TEM, fibroblast in red, telocyte in blue; lower right tangential section of a fibroblast on TEM

The following cell types can be referred to as Cajal cells:

• Interstitial cells of Cajal – cells in the intestinal wall that serve as pacemakers of the autonomic nervous system;
• Cajal-Retzius cells – a population of cells involved in the development of the cerebral cortex.

Links

External links

• article Interstitial cell of Cajal on English Wikipedia
• article Cajal–Retzius cell on English Wikipedia

Source

• ČAMBOROVÁ, P. – HUBKA, P. – ŠULKOVÁ, I.. The pacemaker activity of interstitial cells of Cajal and gastric electrical activity. Physiol Res. [online]. 2003, vol. 52, no. 3, p. 275-84, Available from <http://www.biomed.cas.cz/physiolres/pdf/2003/52_275.pdf?origin=publication_detail>. ISSN 0862-8408. 

• MEYER, G.. Building a human cortex: the evolutionary differentiation of Cajal-Retzius cells and the cortical hem. J Anat. [online]. 2010, vol. 217, no. 4, p. 334-43, Available from <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01266.x?cookieSet=1>. ISSN 1469-7580.