INTRACELLULAR MOVEMENTS OF FLUORESCENTLY LABELED SYNAPTIC VESICLES IN FROG MOTOR-NERVE TERMINALS DURING NERVE-STIMULATION
INTRACELLULAR MOVEMENTS OF FLUORESCENTLY LABELED SYNAPTIC VESICLES IN FROG MOTOR-NERVE TERMINALS DURING NERVE-STIMULATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0896-6273(92)90235-6
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发表时间:
1992-11-01
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影响因子:
16.2
通讯作者:
RIDGE, RMAP
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作者:
BETZ, WJ;BEWICK, GS;RIDGE, RMAP
We stained synaptic vesicles in frog motor nerve terminals with FM1-43 and studied changes in the shape and position of vesicle clusters during nerve stimulation. Each stained vesicle cluster appeared as a fluorescent spot. During repetitive nerve stimulation the spots gradually dimmed, most without changing shape or position. Occasionally, however, a spot moved, appearing in some cases to stream toward and coalesce with a neighboring spot. This suggests the existence of translocation mechanisms that can actively move vesicles in a coordinated fashion between vesicle clusters. Within single clusters, we saw no signs of such directed vesicle movements. Flourescent spots in terminals viewed from the side with a confocal microscope did not shrink toward the presynaptic membrane during nerve stimulation, but dimmed uniformly. This suggests that vesicles continuously mix within a cluster during destaining and provides no evidence of active vesicle translocators within single vesicle clusters for moving vesicles to the presynaptic membrane.