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Measurements of synaptic vesicles confirmed these different appearances. Vesicles measured from a single synapse (Fig. 3A, B) have a range of sizes and circularities (Fig. 3C), almost certainly because some vesicles appear in tangential section and because those that are flattened can appear circular in some orientations. In order to compare different terminals, we collapsed this variability by computing mean data (large dot in the center of Fig. 3C). Plots of mean data from all terminals are shown in Fig. 4, in which each point represents an individual terminal. There are three clusters of http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Adriamycin.html points that reflect our impression of the three vesicle types (Fig. 2). Using the kmeans analysis (see Methods) and an assumption of three clusters establishes the boundaries for the groups (color coding on Fig. 4). Terminals containing Pleo vesicles have mean circularities less than 0.85. Terminals containing Sm Rnd vesicles have higher mean circularities and mean areas less than 1,450 nm2. The remaining terminals contain Lg Rnd vesicles. The Sm Rnd and Lg Rnd terminals have a significantly different mean vesicle area (t test, P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentamorphone terminals formed multiple synapses. Figure 4 used combined data from all synapses of a given terminal, but when plotted separately (data not shown), the data points from individual synapses of a single terminal always fell into just one of the three clusters. In two terminals, though, the data from one of the synapses fell into a borderline area. One of these was a Lg Rnd terminal: two of its synapses clearly fell into the Lg Rnd cluster (mean areas 1,601 and 1,646 nm2) and the third synapse (mean area 1,437 nm2) fell just beyond the border. No dense core vesicles were observed. The second of these was a Sm Rnd terminal: one of its synapses was in the middle of the Sm Rnd cluster (mean area 1,101 nm2) whereas http://www.selleckchem.com/products/LBH-589.html its other synapse (mean area 1,477 nm2) was just beyond the border. Dense core vesicles were present in this terminal. Overall, though, the data suggest a terminal forms just a single type of synapse. Only terminals with Pleo vesicles engulf and form synapses on spines from TTMN somata (Fig. 2C), or, in a single case, a TTMN dendrite. Eight of a total of 26 terminals with Pleo vesicles have spine-associated synapses and at least one such synapse was found on each of our six TTMNs. The spines are simple, unbranched tubes with diameters 0.