A technique for studying the innervation of organs
A technique for studying the innervation of organs
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研究器官神经支配的技术
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1937
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L. R. Wharton
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L. R. Wharton
TITe are publishing this technique because it has been extremely helpful to us in the past 6 years. We have used it in dissecting the nerve supply of the ureter, kidney and bladder of the liumaii being, and the reproductive organs of the female monkey, Ilacacus rhesus. It is particularly adapted to the study of fine plexuses and ganglia, the innervation of blood vessels aiid pedicles and the dissectioii of nerves in their relation to organs. The priuciple which underlies this method is that the tissue is fixed and stained permanently before it is dissected. After it has been fixed and stained, moreover, the tissue remains soft and pliable, so that it can be dissected easily. By this technique, many other tissues also are stained, such as muscle, blood vessels and connective tissue, but since nerve takes the stain most deeply, the contrast is striking and clear. NTe evolved this technique 6 years ago while we were searching for a satisfactory method of dissecting the nerves of the human ureter. We started our investigation of the ureteral innervation in the usual way, making gross dissections of cadavers, either fresh or fixed by formalin. After 6 months, however, we realized that such dissections would not answer our needs. Iii the first place, they did not reveal fine a id delicate structures. Even when using optical lenses, x7e could not snalyse plexuses, ganglia and nerve pathways as accurately as we wished to. Then, again, it was impossible to identify the iiature of finer structures, and distinguish nerves