TABLE 2.

Fractional area [%] of organelles in dendrites including afferent synapses of wildtype (wt) and Loa/+ mice.

Organelle	wt MV		Loa/+ MV		Loa/+ RtTg
	Mean	±SEM	Mean	±SEM	Mean	±SEM
Total Cytosol	55.9		59.1		43.0
Cytosol without polyribosomes	25.1	±6.3	59.1**	±3.3	25.3	±4.4
Cytosol with polyribosomes	30.8	±0.3	0.0*	±0.0	17.7	±0.4
Endoplasmic reticulum	8.9	±3.2	2.15*	±0.2	11.9	±0.4
Total Mitochondria	10.3	±0.4	12.5	±1.5	8.5	±0.2
Normal Mitochondria	9.2	±1.5	3.75*	±0.3	7.5	±0.1
“Aged” Mitochondria	1.1	±1.1	8.75**	±1.2	1.0	±0.1
Early endosomes	2.8	±0.4	4.65	±1.2	4.6	±1.8
Late endosomes	3.4	±1.0	1.8*	±0.5	3.2	±0.2
Multivesicular bodies	2.0	±1.2	0.25*	±0.2	1.6	±0.5
Lysosomes	1.6	±1.6	0.0*	±0.0	2.6	±1.7
Tubules	1.7	±0.6	1.9	±0.5	1.8	±0.7
Plasma membrane	7.6	±1.2	8.8	±0.1	8.8	±3.3
Synapses	5.8	±0.5	8.3	±2.2	13.1	±1.2
Unidentified	0.0	±0.0	0.55	±0.1	0.9	±0.8
	100.0		100.0		100.0

MV, Trigeminal Motor neurons; RtTg, reticulotegmental nucleus.

Major differences in bold:

^*decrease;

^**increase.