Identified hair follicle afferent boutons in the spinal cord of the cat are enriched with L-glutamate-like immunoreactivity |
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Authors: | DJ Maxwell WM Christie AG Brown OP Ottersen J Storm-Mathisen |
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Affiliation: | Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. |
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Abstract: | Hair follicle afferent boutons in the spinal dorsal horn of the cat were examined for L-glutamate enrichment. Two hair follicle afferent axons were labelled intra-axonally with horseradish peroxidase, and post-embedding immunogold reactions of L-glutamate were performed on thin sections containing horseradish peroxidase-labelled boutons. Quantitative analysis showed that hair follicle boutons were associated with immunogold reactions for L-glutamate which were almost twice as dense as average values for dorsal horn tissue. Further analysis revealed that hair afferent boutons displayed 2.3-times the average gold particle density associated with post-synaptic dendrites and 3-times the average immunogold density for L-glutamate of structures which were known to be immunoreactive for GABA. This enrichment of L-glutamate in identified hair afferent terminals supports the idea that the amino acid is a neurotransmitter of hair follicle primary afferent axons. |
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