AN ANALYSIS OF THE AXON POPULATIONS IN THE NERVES TO THE PELVIC VISCERA IN THE RAT
AN ANALYSIS OF THE AXON POPULATIONS IN THE NERVES TO THE PELVIC VISCERA IN THE RAT
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.902110102
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
COGGESHALL, RE
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作者:
HULSEBOSCH, CE;COGGESHALL, RE
Selective surgical ablations combined with EM analyses was used to determine the number of axons in various catagories in rat hypogastric, pelvic and pudendal nerves, these being the nerves to the pelvic viscera in this animal. Unmyelinated fibers predominate in all of these nerves. One of the most significant findings is that the pelvic nerve contains almost as many postganglionic sympathetic fibers as the hypogastric nerve. Previous investigators thought that the pelvic nerve supplied the parasympathetic inflow and the hypogastric nerve the sympathetic inflow to the pelvic viscera. The finding that there is a sizable sympathetic component of the pelvic nerve negates this idea, at least for the rat and presumably calls for a reevaluation of the syndromes that arise from pelivic as opposed to hypogastric nerve section. Other findings of interest are that there are unmyelinated efferent axons in the pudendal nerve, indicating that the pudendal is not a typical somatic nerve, that the hypogastric nerve has a very small sensory component and that there are fibers surviving in the distal stumps of all these nerves, particularly the pelvic and hypogastric nerves.