Cellular structures involved in the transport processes and neuroglial interactions in the crayfish stretch receptor
Grigoriy M Fedorenko1, Anatoliy B Uzdensky
1Southern Scientific Center RAS, A.B. Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics, Southern Federal University, 194/1, Stachki ave, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation. gfedorenko@mail.ru
Abstract:
In order to explore neuroglial relationships in a simple nervous system, the ultrastructure of crayfish stretch receptor, which consists of only two sensory neurons enveloped by satellite glial cells, was studied. Neuronal Golgi complex was oriented such that its output trans-Golgi network usually faced the bundles of microtubules within the neuronal cytoplasm and very rarely to the outer membrane. Therefore, it participates mainly in the processing of proteins transported along microtubules to distal neuron parts rather than those transported to glial cells. Structural triads of submembrane cisterns-vesicles-mitochondria were involved in formation of glial protrusions into the neuronal cytoplasm. The double-wall vesicles within the neuron body were the captured parts of such glial protrusions. Glial protrusions and double-wall vesicles facilitated the neuroglial transport and large-scale delivery of the glial material into the neuron. The neuroglial transport could also be performed by diffusion across the intercellular space. These data indicate the significant neuroglial exchange with cellular components.
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