Quantitative studies of the vagus nerve in the cat - I. The ratio of sensory to motor fibers
Quantitative studies of the vagus nerve in the cat - I. The ratio of sensory to motor fibers
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.900670104
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发表时间:
1937-06-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
DuBois, F
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作者:
Foley, JO;DuBois, F
Portions of the right and left vagus nerves from 2 normal cats and corresponding portions from 9 other cats in which the efferent fibers of the right nerve had been eliminated were prepared by Ag and osmic acid methods and subjected to numerical analysis. In the better material 33,554 to 39.166 axons were enumerated in normal vagus nerves and 26,164 to 31,387 in those that contained only afferent fibers. These counts were made just distal to the jugular ganglion. Computations showed there were 22,134 to 29,411 cells in the nodose ganglia. Sensory fibers on the operated side constituted from 65% to 80% of the total fibers on the unoperated side. Conversely, motor fibers ranged from 20% to 35%. The assumption that the nos. of fibers in the nerves of the 2 sides are normally equal has been found to be only approximately correct. 23% to 33% of the fibers in the intact vagus nerves were found to be myelinated, viz., 10% to 20% of the sensory fibers and 48% to 71% of the motor fibers. The vagus nerve of the cat is predominantly sensory and predominantly unmyelinated.