Skip Navigation


Journal of Electron Microscopy Advance Access originally published online on February 4, 2009
Journal of Electron Microscopy 2009 58(2):67-72; doi:10.1093/jmicro/dfp001
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
58/2/67    most recent
dfp001v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Desaki, J.
Right arrow Articles by Nishida, N.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Desaki, J.
Right arrow Articles by Nishida, N.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Japanese Society of Microscopy. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A small lamellar corpuscle within a small nerve bundle outside the tendon of the rat soleus muscle

Junzo Desaki1,* and Naoya Nishida2

1 Department of Integrated Basic Medical Research, Ehime University School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime 791-0295, Japan
2 Department of Otolaryngology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime 791-0295, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: desaki{at}m.ehime-u.ac.jp

A small nerve bundle outside the tendon of the adult rat soleus muscle contained a small lamellar corpuscle similar in structural organization to the ordinary paciniform corpuscle. A terminal axon composing this corpuscle was originated from a side branch of an afferent nerve fiber and surrounded by a number (~15) of closely packed flattened lamellae of modified Schwann cells, while the stem nerve fiber freely terminated within the nerve bundle. These findings suggested that an afferent nerve fiber retracted after degeneration might extend a new branch within the nerve bundle and unexpectedly form a lamellar corpuscle within it.

Keywords     small nerve bundle, tendon, small lamellar (paciniform) corpuscle, soleus muscle, adult rat

Received     16 October 2008, accepted 25 December 2008


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.