Specificity of membrane specializations in mechanoreceptors of birds--A freeze-etching study

Somatosensory & Motor Research
C N Chouchkov, L Surchev

Abstract

The detailed knowledge of the molecular process of mechanotransduction is still an unsolved question. The investigation of the intramembranous structure of the cutaneous mechanoreceptors may play an important role in elucidating this problem. In this relation, Herbst sensory corpuscles in ducks were studied for the first time using the freeze-etching and thin sectioning techniques. Herbst corpuscles have the basic structural components valid for most of the encapsulated mechanoreceptors in mammals: a capsule made of perineural cells, a lamellar complex of modified Schwann cells, surrounding the non-myelinated part of the receptor nerve fiber and its ending. Freeze-etching replicas reveal that the plasmalemmae of the capsule cells, modified Schwann cells and axolemmae of parts of the nerve fiber differ in both density and pattern of distribution of intramembranous particles (IMPs) as well as IMP size. On all the plasmalemmae the IMP density is higher on the P-face (2000-3300 microm(-2)) than the respective E-face (800-1500 microm(-2)). The axolemma of the ending of the receptor nerve fiber expresses higher density of IMPs than its shaft. The mean IMP size for all the plasmalemmae varies between 5.5 and 7.5 nm. Many tight junctio...Continue Reading

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