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The ganglion-connective junction in the central nervous system of the leech, Hirudo medicinalis

✍ Scribed by Richard E. Coggeshall

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1966
Tongue: English
Weight: 736 KB
Volume: 119
Category: Article
ISSN: 0362-2525
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1051190403

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✦ Synopsis

Classical studies of the nervous system of the leech revealed that there were specific types of very large glial cells associated with various parts of the neuron. Recent microelectrode studies demonstrated that there was a low resistance to the flow charge from any one of these large glial cells to another. The present study describes a previously unreported type of glial cell, the glial cell of the fascicles. These cells, which resemble the glial cells of the connectives but are smaller, are found in the fascicles of axons that unite the connectives to the neuronil. Thus, these cells are located between the glial cells of the connectives on the one hand and the glial cells of the neuropil and packets on the other and must be taken into account in considerations of the low resistance to the transfer of charge from one glial cell to another.

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