HISTOLOGICAL FINE STRUCTURE OF PERINEURIUM
HISTOLOGICAL FINE STRUCTURE OF PERINEURIUM
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DOI:
10.1002/ar.1091580207
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
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BURKEL, WE
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BURKEL, WE
Extraocular rat muscles possessed numerous nerves suitable for electron microscopic study. Small nerves composed of 1 to 10 myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers were surrounded by 2 or 3 layers of perineurium. The perineurium was arranged in concentric sleeves, each one cell thick. Continuous boundary membranes separated the perineural sleeves from the epineural and endoneural tissue space, but the boundary membranes were sometimes spotty or absent between individual sleeves. The presence of boundary membranes around perineural cells distinguished them from nearby fibroblasts which lacked similar membranous investment. Tight intercellular junctions joined the cells comprising each sleeve so that the nerves were completely ensheathed in perineurium. The number of sleeves decreased as the nerve became smaller, either by the termination of the innermost sleeve or by the loss of a sleeve as the nerve branched. The last sleeve ended shortly before the termination of the nerve. The perineurium was thus open-ended peripherally and, at these places, the epineurium and endoneurium were continuous. Continuities between the epineurium and endoneurium also existed at the entrance and exit to blood vessels supplying the nerve and at points where reticular fibers pierced the perineurium. These structural features correlated well with the action of the perineurium as a diffusion barrier and as a pathway in the transmission of infections.