Ultrastructural features of neurons and synaptic contacts in the posterodorsal medial amygdala of adult male rats.

Journal of Anatomy
Erica E S HermelMatilde Achaval

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to describe the ultrastructure of neurons (from eight animals) and to analyse the synaptic terminal distribution (from two animals) in the posterodorsal subnucleus of the medial amygdala (MePD) of adult male rats. Using transmission electron microscopy, it was possible to identify many spiny and aspiny dendrites, unmyelinated axonal bundles, single axonal processes, a few myelinated axons, blood vessels and glial processes in the neuropil. Axodendritic synapses were the most frequently observed (67.5%), appearing to be of either the inhibitory or the excitatory types. The presynaptic region contained round or flattened vesicles that occurred either singly or with dense-cored vesicles (DCVs). The dendrites often received many synapses on a single shaft, and axon terminals displayed synaptic contacts with one or more postsynaptic structures. Dendritic spines showed different morphologies and the synapses on them (23.1%) formed a single and apparently excitatory synaptic contact with round, electron-lucid vesicles alone or, less frequently, with DCVs. Inhibitory and excitatory axosomatic synapses (8.2%) and excitatory axoaxonic synapses (1.2%) were also identified. The present report provides new f...Continue Reading

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