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An ultrastructural study was made of the neurons, satellite cells and vesiculated axons of the intestinal nerve of the domestic fowl. Broad membrane-to-membrane contacts between adjacent nerve cell bodies were sometimes observed. The cell bodies and processes were not always separated from the extracellular space by a capsule of satellite cells. Following fixation using potassium permanganate, catecholamine (CA)-containing neurons in the intestinal nerve, unlike those in the lumbar parasympathetic ganglia, did not possess any small granular vesicles (SGV). Following exposure to noradrenaline, SGV could be demonstrated in the cell bodies of the juxta-ileal ganglia but not the juxta-rectal ganglia of the intestinal nerve. Non-CA axons were examined in tissue from birds that had been pretreated with 6-hydroxydopamine. Approximately one half of the non-CA axons formed axo-somatic contacts. Most of the non-CA axons contained varying proportions of small clear vesicles, large clear vesicles and large granular vescles. Statistical analysis showed that the non-CA axons could not be subdivided according to their vesicle content. CA-axons contained many SGV and were found in close apposition to neuronal somata and processes, and in the neuropil.
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Young, H.M. The ultrastructure of the intestinal nerve of Remak in the domestic fowl. Cell Tissue Res 260, 601–616 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00297241
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