title: Ultrastructural localization of alpha E-catenin in the rat sciatic nerve.
abstract: Alpha E-catenin is included in the same category as alpha N-catenin, and both of them have been identified as subtypes of alpha-catenin. A previous study issued from our laboratory demonstrated that alpha N-catenin is localized in the axoplasm of unmyelinated peripheral nerves, whereas the localization of alpha E-catenin in the peripheral nervous system has not yet been reported. The present study was focused on the distribution of alpha E-catenin in the rat sciatic nerve. By electron microscopy using immunocytochemical methods, alpha E-catenin immunoreactivities were generally detected in the Schwann cell cytoplasm of unmyelinated nerve and the outer loop of myelinated nerve. Those findings suggest that alpha E-catenin may be associated with Schwann cell-Schwann cell or axon-Schwann cell contacts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. mah.murata@hosp.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Maho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Munemoto
authors.forename: Junichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Takahide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Komori
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012583:Schwann Cells / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D051178:alpha Catenin / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D051178:alpha Catenin