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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1997-10-27
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pubmed:abstractText |
The projections, connections, morphology and electrophysiological features of the myenteric interneurons with somatostatin immunoreactivity in the guinea-pig small intestine have been established using retrograde tracing, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy and intracellular recording. After application of the fluorescent dye, 1,1'-didodecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl indocarbocyanine perchlorate (DiI), to the myenteric plexus, up to 900 nerve cell bodies were labelled in each preparation. Somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons accounted for 13% of all retrogradely labelled cells and were located up to 70 mm orally. When DiI was applied to the submucous ganglia, many myenteric neurons were labelled and 8% of all retrogradely labelled cells were somatostatin immunoreactive and were located up to 60 mm oral to the DiI application sites. These neurons had ovoid cell bodies, a single axon, several long filamentous dendrites and received close contacts from 40-200 somatostatin-immunoreactive varicosities. Intracellular recordings revealed that these cells had features of both S (i.e. with Synaptic inputs) and AH (i.e. neurons with After Hyperpolarization) cells, receiving fast excitatory synaptic inputs, having characteristic "sag" in their response to hyperpolarizing current pulses and sometimes a long afterhyperpolarization following soma action potentials. It is concluded that somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons have distinct electrophysiological features and form very long anally directed interneuronal chains that connect with both myenteric and submucous neurons.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Oct
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pubmed:issn |
0306-4522
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
80
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
907-23
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Animals,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Axonal Transport,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Axons,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Carbocyanines,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Dendrites,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Fluorescent Dyes,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Ganglia, Autonomic,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Guinea Pigs,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Immunohistochemistry,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Interneurons,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Intestine, Small,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Myenteric Plexus,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Somatostatin,
pubmed-meshheading:9276502-Synapses
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pubmed:year |
1997
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Characterization of myenteric interneurons with somatostatin immunoreactivity in the guinea-pig small intestine.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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