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  • adjective characterizes a connection between two neurons as involving an intermediate neuron.

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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.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2010

  • The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2010

  • 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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