NERVE FIBRES IN OPTIC NERVE OF RAT
NERVE FIBRES IN OPTIC NERVE OF RAT
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DOI:
10.1038/214245a0
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
PETERS, A
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作者:
FORRESTER, J;PETERS, A
The total number of fibers in the rat optic nerve is about 117,000; the numbers calculated for the 2 nerves are 116,300 and 118,300. They are all myelinated. The very small number (0.18%) of fibers seen to have no myelin sheath can be accounted for by assuming that they were cut at the node of Ranvier. This assumption is supported by the presence of electron dense granular material beneath the axolemma, which is a characteristic of an axon at a node of Ranvier. All the nodal fibers observed were of small diameter (less than 0.8[mu]), so that either none of the larger myelinated fibers present in the nerve was cut at a node in the present sections examined by electron microscopy, or else these larger fibers became narrower at a node than in their intervening course.