Different myelination of rat septohippocampal fibres as revealed by immunofluorescence double-labelling

Autor: Ulrich Gärtner, Gert Brückner, Thomas Arendt, Wolfgang Härtig, Kurt Brauer
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Brain Research. 878:188-193
ISSN: 0006-8993
Popis: The present study focuses on the myelination of rat septohippocampal fibres that are known to originate from GABAergic parvalbumin-containing, fast-firing, fast-conducting neurons and from cholinergic slow-firing, slow-conducting neurons. With the combined immunofluorescence for parvalbumin/myelin basic protein and choline acetyltransferase/myelin basic protein it was shown that the vast majority of parvalbumin-containing fibres are myelinated, but the choline acetyltransferase-containing fibres are not. Accordingly, our results confirm the expectation that conduction velocities and presence or absence of myelin sheaths are also correlated in the septohippocampal pathway.
Databáze: OpenAIRE