Table 3.

Spinule locations relative to perforations in the PSD on mushroom spines

Spinule locations Number Percentage
Total at perforated synapses 71
Center of the perforation into presynaptic axon 29 40.8%
At the edge of the PSD into presynaptic axon 23 32.4%
Distant from the PSD into the presynaptic axon 12 16.9%
Into a neighboring axon 7 9.9%