Monkey extensor digitorum communis motoneuron pool: Proximal dendritic trees and small motoneurons
| Autor: | Paul D. Cheney, Arthur B. Jenny, Andrew K. Jenny |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Horse radish peroxidase Biology 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Animals 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Muscle Skeletal Cell Size Motor Neurons General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Anatomy Dendrites musculoskeletal system Spinal cord Radial direction Macaca mulatta Axons Forearm medicine.anatomical_structure nervous system Spinal Cord Extensor Digitorum Communis 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience letters. 675 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7972 |
| Popis: | Transverse sections of the monkey cervical spinal cord from a previous study (Jenny and Inukai, 1983) were reanalyzed using Neurolucida to create a three-dimensional display of extensor digitorum communis (EDC) motoneurons and proximal dendrites that had been labeled with horse radish peroxidase (HRP). The EDC motoneuron pool was located primarily in the C8 and T1 segments of the spinal cord. Small motoneurons (cell body areas less than 500 μm2 and presumed to be gamma motoneurons) comprised about ten percent of the motoneurons and were located throughout the length of the motoneuron pool. Most small motoneurons were oblong in shape and had one or two major dendrites originating from the cell body in the transverse plane of section. The majority of the HRP labeled dendritic trees were directed either superiorly, dorsal-medially to the mid zone area between the base of the dorsal horn and the upper portion of the ventral horn, or medially to the ventromedial gray matter. The longer HRP labeled dendrites usually continued in the same radial direction as when originating from the cell body. As such we considered the radial direction of the longer proximal HRP labeled dendrites to be a reasonable estimate of the radial direction of the more distal dendritic tree. Our data suggest that the motoneuron dendritic tree as seen in transverse section has direction-oriented dendrites that extend toward functional terminal regions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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