Histophysiology of the vegetative peripheral nervous system of skin.
Preterminal nerve fibers of the peripheral vegetative nervous system make inmediate contact (neuro-effector-areas) to interstitial cells (I.C.). This connection is characterized through a common glycocalyx with the nerve fiber. The I.C. are specific innervated cells and differ morphologically from Schwann-cells, fibrocytes, and histiocytes. The I.C. are able to come into morphologically different contacts with neighbouring cells by microvilli-like cell protrusions. These neighbouring cells then are able to contact other cells by themselves. The results are interpreted in the sense of electro-mechanical feed-back system of information processing in the vegetative periphery.
D000818:Animals; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D001369:Axons / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051379:Mice; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009451:Neuroeffector Junction / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009940:Organoids / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012583:Schwann Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009435:Synaptic Transmission