Keywords: Microzone.svg en Schematic illustration of the structure of zones and microzones in the cerebellum using three levels of magnification On the left is a simplified illustration of what the cerebellar cortex would look like if all the folds were straightened out the vertical dimension is the rostro-caudal axis of the cerebellum the horizontal dimension is the medio-lateral axis A zone is a longitudinally oriented strip of the cortex and a microzone is a thin longitudinally oriented portion of a zone As the illustration on the right shows Purkinje cell dendritic trees are flattened in a way that aligns with the microzone length and parallel fibers cross the microzones at right angles original work created using Inkscape user Looie496 2009-12-17 Cerebellum Brain |