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Axonal terminals of sensory neurons and their morphological diversity
Lawrence Kruger et al. J Neurocytol. 2003 Mar.
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The application of electron microscopy to defining the fine structural characteristics of axon terminals and synapses was followed by a half century of intensive exploration of the molecular concomitants of synaptic activity. The summer of 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the earliest accounts of synapses by Palay and Palade. Prompted by recent findings of specialization in the fine structure of nociceptor terminals that lack contacts remotely resembling a synapse, we present a survey of arrangements, contacts and axoplasmic contents of peripheral sensory axon terminals. The morphological principles underlying the variety of small, clear, spherical vesicles, mitochondrial aggregation, the membrane thickenings associated with sensory terminals and the organelles or inclusions associated with the site of transduction apparently do not conform to a simple parsimonious rule. It is also evident that the terminal of the central branch of bifurcated sensory axons differs structurally from its distal counterparts. This brief illustrated account addresses some important unresolved problems in the functional interpretation of the diverse morphological features exhibited in both synaptic and non-synaptic sensory axon terminals with the aim of identifying and emphasizing some key questions amenable to resolution with contemporary morphological and physiological techniques.
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