Volume 17, Number 18,
Issue of September 15, 1997
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
In the article "Cellular, Subcellular, and Subsynaptic
Distribution of AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptor Subunits in the
Neostriatum of the Rat," by V. Bernard, P. Somogyi, and J. P. Bolam,
which appeared on pages 819-833 of the January 15, 1997 issue,
a computational error was made in the construction of the frequency
histogram of the distribution of immunolabeling at the subsynaptic
level in Figure 10. The figure, legend, and corresponding paragraph of Results are reprinted.
Fig. 10.
Distribution of immunoparticles for GluR1 and
GluR2/3 subunits along the postsynaptic membrane specialization of
axospinous synapses labeled by the postembedding immunogold method. A
similar distribution of GluR1 and GluR2/3 subunits occurred at
axospinous synapses [GluR1, n = 30 synapses, (mean length ± SEM, 333.6 ± 21.3 nm), 97 immunoparticles; GluR2/3, n = 88 synapses, (mean length ± SEM, 272.4 ± 7.9 nm), 407 immunoparticles]. The immunoparticles are less concentrated at the
center of the postsynaptic membrane specialization. Only synapses
labeled by two or more particles are included in the analysis.
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The distribution of the immunoparticles along the
postsynaptic membrane in two animals was analyzed at axospinous
synapses for GluR1 (n = 30 synapses, 97 immunoparticles) and
GluR2/3 (n = 88 synapses, 407 immunoparticles (Fig. 10). The
immunoparticles were not homogeneously distributed. At axospinous
synapses, there was a tendency for the immunoparticles, particularly
for the GluR1 subunit, to be less concentrated at the center of the
postsynaptic specialization than at the periphery (Fig. 10). In the
quantitative analysis, 12.5% of immunoparticles representing GluR1
occurred in the central 20% of the half-width of the synapse, whereas
22.7 and 27.8% of the particles were present at 20-40 and
40-60% of the distance from the center of the synapse, respectively.
For the GluR2/3 the density of immunoparticles was relatively even over
the central 60% of the half-width of the synapse but increased in
density in the outer 40% of the half-width. Only very few particles fell apparently outside of the postsynaptic specialization, but the
exact location of immunoparticles at the edge of the synapse is
difficult to judge because of a sterical distortion between the image
of the membrane specialization formed from the whole thickness of the
section and the most superficial layer available for the antibody.