Neurons in laminae III and IV of the rat spinal cord with the neurokinin-1 receptor receive few contacts from unmyelinated primary afferents which do not contain substance P - PubMed (original) (raw)
Neurons in laminae III and IV of the rat spinal cord with the neurokinin-1 receptor receive few contacts from unmyelinated primary afferents which do not contain substance P
H Sakamoto et al. Neuroscience. 1999.
Abstract
We have previously demonstrated that neurons in laminae III and IV of the spinal dorsal horn which possess the neurokinin-1 receptor and have long dorsal dendrites receive a major synaptic input from substance P-containing primary afferents and a more limited input from myelinated afferents. In the present study we have carried out a quantitative analysis of the contacts which cells of this type receive from two other classes of unmyelinated primary afferent: those which contain somatostatin and those without neuropeptides. We found that although boutons belonging to both of these types of afferent do form contacts with neurons of this type, the contacts are far less numerous than those formed by substance P-containing afferents. In laminae I and II, the density of contacts which dendrites of these cells received from somatostatin-containing afferents was 1.2/100 microm and that from non-peptidergic C afferents was 2.0/100 microm, which is far lower than our previous estimate of 18.8/100 microm from substance P-containing fibres in these laminae. These results indicate that although the dendrites of large neurons in laminae III and IV which possess the neurokinin-1 receptor pass through regions of the dorsal horn in which many types of primary afferent terminate, their synaptic input from primary afferents is organized in a highly selective manner.
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