PMID: 490190Aug 1, 1979Paper

Serotoninergic synapses on ependymal and hypendymal cells of the rat subcommissural organ

Journal of Neurocytology
K Møllgård, L Wiklund

Abstract

The nervous input to the subcommissural organ (SCO) of the rat has been investigated with Falck-Hillarp fluorescence histochemistry and electron microscopical techniques. Previous fluorescence histochemical observations of a dense plexus of serotoninergic nerve fibres in relation to the basal SCO were confirmed. Electron microscopically, unmyelinated fine varicose axons ranging in size from 0.1--0.6 micrometer were observed to penetrate into the SCO hypendyma. Boutons and presynaptic varicosities filled with a diversity of round and elongated clear vesicles, and occasional large dense cored vesicles establish asymmetric (Gray's type I) synaptic contacts with the basal processes and somata of the SCO ependymal and hypendymal cells. A typical varicosity in synaptic contact with an SCO cell contains a population of approximately 85% clear, elongated vesicles 45 X 60 nm in diameter, 15% clear, round vesicles 50 nm in diameter, and 1--2% large dense cored vesicles with a vesicle diameter of about 85 nm and a dense core diameter of 50--55 nm. The mean length of the postsynaptic membrane specialization was found to be 0.5 micrometer. Experiments with specific neurotoxic drugs revealed that the nerve terminals in synaptic contact with ...Continue Reading

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