1. Subsurface cisterna-lined axonal invaginations and double-walled vesicles at the axonal–myelin sheath interface
- Author
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Toyoko Kawate, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Saoko Atsumi, Osamu Shimada, Yong-Nan Li, Yan-Chao Li, and Chang-Xie Cheng
- Subjects
Double walled ,Action Potentials ,Biology ,Endoplasmic Reticulum ,Cell Membrane Structures ,law.invention ,Microscopy, Electron, Transmission ,law ,medicine ,Animals ,Axon ,Myelin Sheath ,Motor Neurons ,General Neuroscience ,Vesicle ,Endoplasmic reticulum ,Cytoplasmic Vesicles ,General Medicine ,Cisterna ,Axons ,Cell biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Spinal Cord ,nervous system ,Myelin sheath ,Electron microscope ,Chickens ,Ribosomes - Abstract
The axonal–myelin sheath interface of vertebrate myelinated axons possesses special structural complexities, and there may be an intercellular macromolecular traffic transversing the periaxonal cleft that spans the internodal axon. By conventional electron microscopy and serial sectioning, we observed a category of double-walled vesicles at the axonal–myelin sheath interface, which often contained ribosome-like particles or endoplasmic reticulum. Some of them were demonstrated to continue with the subjacent axon with a thin stalk. In addition, we described a special category of axonal invaginations, probably mediated by subsurface cisternae. The functional implications of these specialized structures were discussed.
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- 2005