Structural plasticity of optic synapses in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus: adaptation to long-term influence of light and darkness

F. H.Güldner; E.Bahar; C. A.YoungC. A.Ingham

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Structural plasticity of optic synapses in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus: adaptation to long-term influence of light and darkness

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Synapses of optic afferents (optic synapses) in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of hooded rats were morphometrically evaluated after exposing the animals to 12 h, 14 days, 2 months, and 8 months of constant light (light rats) and darkness (dark rats). Compared with dark rats, optic synapses from light rats have larger boutons with larger mitochondria, more clear vesicles, fewer dense-core vesicles and front-line vesicles, smaller presynaptic dense projections, a smaller amount of postsynaptic density material, a smaller relative number of Gray-type I (asymmetric) junctions, a greater relative number of Gray-type II (symmetric) junctions, as well as more and larger mitochondria in the postsynaptic dendrites. Junctions of optic synapses are mostly straight, but the small number of positively curved contacts are more flattened in light rats than in dark rats. An age-related increase in the size of presynaptic dense projections was also observed. There are no changes in the sizes of clear and dense-core vesicles, in the size of synaptic junctions and their numerical density in area, and in the unspecific contact area between pre- and postsynaptic elements. The changes in optic boutons are characteristic for activated and relatively disused synapses with a slow, tonic firing rate. It appears that (1) the amount of postsynaptic density material is proportional to the strength of Gray-type I synapses, and that (2) some excitatory optic synapses become inhibitory after long-term activity, whereas some inhibitory synapses turn into excitatory contacts after long-term disuse.

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《cell and tissue research》 |1996年第1期|43-60|共页
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F. H.Güldner; E.Bahar; C. A.YoungC. A.Ingham;
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Department of Behavioural Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia;

Department of Anatomy, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3186, Australia;

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