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- Title
A Quantitative Ultrastructural Study of the Optic Nerve of the Chameleon.
- Authors
Bennis, Mohamed; El Hassni, Meriem; Rio, Jean-Paul; Lecren, Denis; Repérant, Jacques; Ward, Roger
- Abstract
The optic nerve of adult chameleons was investigated with an electron microscope. The total number of retinal ganglion cell axons, the proportion of myelinated axons, the frequency distributions of myelinated and unmyelinated axon diameters were estimated, together with the volume occupied by glial processes. These were distinguished from unmyelinated axons using an antibody directed against glial fibrillary acidic protein, in a post-embedding procedure. The total number of fibers was estimated to be 405,235 ± 60,000 axons. The proportion of myelinated fibers varied with position between the eyeball and the chiasma; being 22–27% close to the eyeball, rising to 42–47% halfway along the optic nerve and to 56–62% close to the chiasma. Myelinated and unmyelinated fiber diameter distributions were unimodal and positively skewed, with modes of 0.7 μm and 0.2 μm, respectively. There was a significant regional variation in the size of optic nerve axons. Large myelinated axons were observed in the dorsal and ventral periphery, whereas smaller myelinated fibers and a high proportion of unmyelinated fibers were found in the center of the nerve.Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
OPTIC nerve; CHAMELEONS; ELECTRON microscopy; AXONS; MYELINATED nerve fibers
- Publication
Brain, Behavior & Evolution, 2001, Vol 58, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0006-8977
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000047261