Catecholamine and acetylcholinesterase distribution in relation to noradrenaline release. An enzyme histochemical and autoradiographic study on the innervation of the cat nictitating muscle.
Catecholamine and acetylcholinesterase distribution in relation to noradrenaline release. An enzyme histochemical and autoradiographic study on the innervation of the cat nictitating muscle.
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儿茶酚胺和乙酰胆碱酯酶的分布与去甲肾上腺素的释放有关。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1968.tb00428.x
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1968
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T. Spriggs
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作者:
A. Esterhuizen;J. Graham;J. Lever;T. Spriggs
Langley (1900) originally suggested that the postganglionic sympathetic nerves which innervate the cat nictitating membrane are derived from cell bodies in the superior cervical ganglion. This contention was supported by Thompson (1961) who demonstrated that sympathetic nerves are conveyed from the ganglion by the carotid nerve and thence via orbital branches of the trigeminal nerve to the inferior and medial nictitating muscles. Investigating the nature of the autonomic innervation of the nictitating membrane, Gardiner, Hellman & Thompson (1962) described a plentiful supply of acetylcholinesterase-positive nerves to the Harderian gland but a very sparse distribution of the same type of fibres within the nictitating muscles. More recently Jacobowitz & Koelle (1965) have demonstrated the presence of catecholamines and acetylcholinesterase in relation to nerves within cat nictitating muscle. Because none of these previous investigations on the innervation of the nictitating membrane was conducted at a fine structural level we have investigated the distribution of adrenergic and acetylcholinesterase-positive nerves in relation to the cat nictitating muscle by both light and electron microscopy, with a view to testing further the important hypothesis of Burn & Rand (1959) that adrenergic nerves contain a cholinergic mechanism which is functionally related to the release of noradrenaline.