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. 2010 Jan 20;30(3):1015–1026. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1517-09.2010

Table 2.

Crista junction densities

Tissue or cell type Crista junctiondensity (per μm2) Crista junctiondiameter (nm)
Neural tissue—CNS
    Calyx—MAC synaptic face 174 ± 89 (9) 15 ± 2 (105)
    Calyx —MAC nonsynaptic face 96 ± 30 (9) 15 ± 3 (46)
    Calyx—non-MAC 58 ± 25 (9) 12 ± 1 (48)
    Rod spherule 54 ± 17 (6) 12 ± 4 (102)
    Rod inner segment 72 ± 29 (5) 17 ± 4 (148)
    Cone pedicle 56 ± 45 (6) 9 ± 2 (32)
    Cone inner segment 52 ± 17 (12) 12 ± 3 (215)
    Retinal ganglion 25 ± 11 (7) 14 ± 4 (184)
    Cerebellum 136 ± 55 (3) 16 ± 5 (85)
    Hippocampus 25 ± 15 (3) 14 ± 4 (38)
    Striatum 65 ± 27 (6) 14 ± 4 (43)
    Cortex 37 ± 8 (6) 14 ± 5 (26)
    Spinal cord 28 ± 10 (6) 13 ± 3 (99)
Neural tissue—PNS
    Schwann cell 80 ± 29 (6) 13 ± 4 (40)
    Axon (spinal root) 19 ± 10 (6) 13 ± 4 (65)
Non-neural tissue
    Brown fat 59 ± 26 (6) 14 ± 5 (524)
    Isolated liver 13 ± 5 (5) 17 ± 7 (197)
    HeLa 54 ± 19 (11) 12 ± 3 (177)

All values are indicated as mean ± SD; number of samples indicated in parentheses. All measurements were performed on tomographic reconstructions.