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J Neurophysiol 51: 777-792, 1984;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 51, Issue 4 777-792, Copyright © 1984 by APS

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Morphology and synaptic relationships of physiologically identified low-threshold dorsal root axons stained with intra-axonal horseradish peroxidase in the cat and monkey

H. J. Ralston 3rd, A. R. Light, D. D. Ralston and E. R. Perl

The arborizations and synaptic relationships of intra-axonally stained horseradish peroxidase- (HRP) labeled primary afferent fibers to the dorsal horn of the cat and monkey spinal cord have been studied by light and electron microscopic methods. The light microscopic arborizations of the afferent fiber types (hair follicle afferents, pacinian corpuscle afferents, type I and type II slowly adapting afferents) are similar to those described by Brown and his colleagues (1) in the cat. The synaptic profiles formed by labeled afferents contain rounded synaptic vesicles. In serial thin sections, it was found that single dorsal root axons may make hundreds or thousands of synapses with neuronal structures of the dorsal horn. The vast majority of synaptic contacts are on the dendritic trees of dorsal horn neurons. The synapses made by these low-threshold afferent axons are almost all in the deeper laminae (III-VI) of the dorsal horn. The hair follicle afferent axons and the pacinian corpuscle afferents have numerous vesicle-containing structures that synapse on them to form either axoaxonal synapses or dendroaxonal synapses. The slowly adapting afferent axons are less often found to be postsynaptic to axons or dendrites. It is concluded that different physiological classes of primary afferent axons have different morphological characteristics, both at the light and electron microscopic level.


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