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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-10-27
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.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0306-4522
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
907-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Characterization of myenteric interneurons with somatostatin immunoreactivity in the guinea-pig small intestine.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't