THE MORPHOLOGY AND ACETYLCHOLINE CONTENT OF ISOLATED CEREBRAL CORTICAL SYNAPTIC VESICLES
@article{Whittaker1965THEMA, title={THE MORPHOLOGY AND ACETYLCHOLINE CONTENT OF ISOLATED CEREBRAL CORTICAL SYNAPTIC VESICLES}, author={Victor P. Whittaker and Michael N. Sheridan}, journal={Journal of Neurochemistry}, year={1965}, volume={12} }
WHEN brain tissue is homogenized under carefully controlled conditions, a high proportion of the presynaptic nerve terminals are torn away from their attachments to form discrete particles for which the term ‘synaptosomes’ has recently been adopted (WHITTAKER, MICHAELSON and KIRKLAND, 1964). These particles may be separated from other subcellular brain particles by differential and density gradient centrifuging. They retain all the structural features of the nerve endings, together with their…
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SOME PROPERTIES OF SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES ISOLATED FROM THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM *
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The purpose of this communication is to describe three homogeneous membrane fractions derived from three specific portions of the central neuron which the authors have succeeded in isolating from homogenates of brain tissue.
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By disrupting synaptosomes, homogenization in fluid hypotonic to plasma releases synaptic vesicles, and presumably the associated structural changes allow rapid enzymic destruction of extra-vesicular ACh, it cannot yet be ruled out that some or most of the labile bound ACh is also bound to the vesicle in the intact nerve ending and appears factitiously as the ‘labile fraction’ when nerve endings are disrupted.
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The acetylcholine-rich electric organ of Torpedo has been submitted to subcellular fractionation in an attempt to isolate nerve endings and synaptic vesicles derived from cholinergic neurones, but the tissue proved difficult to homogenize and few detached nerve endings were formed.
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This chapter describes methods currently available and offers some comments on their applicability and interpretation.
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