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  • Title: [Ultrastructure of the synapses of the initial axonal segment of the pyramidal neuron].
    Author: Bragina TA.
    Journal: Arkh Anat Gistol Embriol; 1983 Oct; 85(10):17-24. PubMed ID: 6661044.
    Abstract:
    Ultrastructure of the proximal part of the axon in the neurons, identified according to a number of morphological signs as pyramidal, has been studied in the layer III of the cat cerebral hemisphere sensomotor cortex. In sections, tangential to the cortical surface, in the initial axonal segment, a submembranous osmophilic layer and fasciculi of microtubules are revealed. On the initial segment spines are found, they contain cysterns resembling by their structure the spine system of the dendritic spines. Axonal terminals revealed along the axonal distribution are in contact both with the axonal trunk and with the spines. Regarding the initial segment, they are presynaptic, contain oval synaptic vesicles and form symmetric axo-axonal synapses only. In transversal sections axonal terminals are detected, arranging on the surface of the initial segment mostly as single ones, in longitudinal sections they are seen as clusters. Analysing the author's data and those from the literature, a conclusion is made that in intact animals the synaptic contacts at the initial segment of the axon are the only form of axo-axonal synapses in the neocortex.
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