title: Ultrastructural differences between pallidohabenular terminals and pallidothalamic terminals.
abstract: Pallidal terminals in the cat lateral habenular nucleus and the ventral anterior and ventral lateral nuclear complex of the thalamus have been examined electron microscopically. A significant difference was obtained after a quantitative analysis of size and shape parameters of synaptic vesicles in the identified terminals: synaptic vesicles in the pallidohabenular terminals had smaller mean elongation index and larger mean vesicle profile area than those in the pallidothalamic terminals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tokuno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Moriizumi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitao
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004027:Diencephalon / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009411:Nerve Endings / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013572:Synaptic Vesicles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013787:Thalamic Nuclei / Q000648:ultrastructure*