Interaction between substance P-immunoreactive central terminals and gamma-aminobutyric acid-immunoreactive elements in synaptic glomeruli in the lamina II of the chicken spinal cord

Neuroscience Research
H Sakamoto, S Atsumi

Abstract

We investigated the interaction between gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-immunoreactive (IR) elements and substance P (SP)-IR central terminals in synaptic glomeruli in lamina II of the chicken spinal cord in order to ascertain how pain information is modulated in the spinal dorsal horn. We combined the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) technique and the protein A-gold (PAG) technique to observe the synaptic relationship between these two components. At the light microscopic level, we observed both GABA-IR and SP-IR elements in the lamina II. GABA-IR elements were also observed in the lamina III. At the electron microscopic level, the following three GABA-IR elements formed synapses with the SP-IR central terminals in synaptic glomeruli: (1) elements which appeared to be axon terminals containing tightly-packed pleomorphic clear vesicles; (2) elements which appeared to be vesicle-containing dendrites with loosely-packed clear and dense-cored vesicles (DCVs); and (3) dendrites without synaptic vesicles. The first type of element was always presynaptic to the SP-IR central terminal. The second type was postsynaptic, presynaptic or in some cases reciprocal to the SP-IR central terminals. The third type was postsynaptic to the SP-IR ce...Continue Reading

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