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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 1, 223-228, Copyright © 1966 by Company of Biologists

Submitted on November 2, 1965

Demonstration of Extracellular Space by Freeze-Drying in the Cerebellar Molecular Layer

A. VAN HARREVELD 1 and S. K. MALHOTRA 1

1 Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

In electron micrographs of the molecular layer of the mouse cerebellum frozen within 30 sec of circulatory arrest and subsequently dried at -79 °C an appreciable extracellular space was found between the axons of the granular cells. Tight junctions were regularly observed between pre- and postsynaptic structures and the enveloping glia cells. In micrographs of cerebellum frozen 8 min after decapitation the space between the axons was absent and tight junctions between the nerve fibres were almost exclusively encountered. The extracellular space of asphyxiated and non-asphyxiated tissue in electron micrographs of frozen-dried material is similar to the space in comparable tissues treated by freeze-substitution. These observations suggest that there is an appreciable amount of extracellular material in oxygenated, living tissue whichis taken up by cellular elements during asphyxiation.

Submitted on November 2, 1965






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