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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
卷 437, 期 3, 页码 335-349出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cne.1287
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GABA; postembedding EM-immunocytochemistry; microcircuits
Synaptic contacts of gamma -aminobutyric acid (GABA) -immunoreactive neurons in honeybee mushroom bodies were studied by using electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. In the lip region of the calyx neuropil, GABA-immunoreactive profiles formed synapses onto both small postsynaptic profiles (76%) and large immunonegative boutons (4%), which were likely to belong to the intrinsic and extrinsic mushroom body neurons, respectively. Three morphologic types of the large immunonegative boutons were distinguished: light, dark, and dense core; all of them received synaptic inputs from the GABA-immunoreactive profiles. A significant proportion of the synapses formed by the GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the lip region (20%) were input synapses from immunonegative neurons. Analysis of thin serial sections showed that the output and input synapses formed microcircuits in which both large immunonegative boutons and small postsynaptic profiles were involved. We interpret these findings to show that negative feedforward and feedback loops exist within the microcircuits of the lip region. J. Comp. Neurol. 437:335-349, 2001. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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