PMID: 1194932Dec 1, 1975Paper

Electron microscopy of synaptic structures in olfactory cortex of early postnatal rats

Journal of Neurocytology
L E Westrum

Abstract

Layer 1 of the rat olfactory cortex has been studied with the electron microscope at birth and at several consecutive postnatal days up to 14 days of age. Special attention was directed towards synaptic structures and axons of the lateral olfactory tract (LOT). Numerous mature synapses are seen at birth and estimates were made of their subsequent increase in number. In addition, immature synapses are seen and mature postsynaptic sites occur with atypical, partial, multiple or no contact. The findings suggest: (1) considerable prenatal synaptogenesis in contrast to other cortical systems; (2) the maturation of the postsynaptic site may precede that of the presynaptic contact and vesicle accumulation; (3) there may be competition by more than one process for one postsynaptic specialization; (4) the non-innervated sites may result from deafferentation caused by prenatal cell death, although no degeneration was seen, and the atypical contacts may be a stage in the reinnervation of these sites; (5) the LOT develops in parallel with the synaptic neuropil and (6) by 14 days of age the area closely resembles adult tissue.

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