The ultrastructure of Mauthner's neurons in the surviving medulla oblongata of goldfish

Moshkov, D.A.; Tiras, N.R.; Pavlik, L.L.; Mukhtasimova, N.F.

Morfologiia 110(4): 56-59

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 1026-3543
PMID: 8983507
Document Number: 465890
Ultrastructure of Mauthner neurons (MN) was studied in fragments of myelencephalon incubated for 0.5-1.5 hours obtained from immature gold fish. Incubation terms increase along with destruction extent and reorganization of cytoplasmic organelles and nucleus with structure of MN afferent synaptic apparatus less disturbed. Specialized synaptic contacts-active zones, cleft contacts and desmosome-like structure are well retained. The data obtained indicate MN viability during the incubation terms studied, which allows to use surviving grafts with MN as a model for studying ultrastructural bases of certain functional changes of neurons and other neurobiological problems.

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