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Peripheral ganglia supplying the genital smooth musculature in the female pig: an experimental study
Author(s) -
PANU RINO,
BO MINELLI LUISA,
BOTTI MADDALENA,
GAZZA FERDINANDO,
ACONE FRANCA,
PALMIERI GIOVANNI
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.932
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1469-7580
pISSN - 0021-8782
DOI - 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2001.19930317.x
Subject(s) - anatomy , horseradish peroxidase , ganglion , retractor , sensory system , biology , sex organ , autonomic ganglion , peripheral , medicine , neuroscience , surgery , biochemistry , enzyme , genetics
The aim of the present study was to locate the sensory and autonomic ganglia innervating the female genital musculature in pigs. The retrograde neuronal tracers horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or fast blue (FB) were injected into the left retractor clitoridis muscle (RCM), which was treated as a typical model of the genital smooth musculature. Labelled cells were found in ipsilateral dorsal root ganglia Sl–S4, in bilateral sympathetic paravertebral ganglia from L5–L6 or L6–L7 to S3 and in the left and right caudal mesenteric ganglion. In two of the five animals treated, presumably preganglionic parasympathetic cells were labelled in the ipsilateral intermediate grey substance of the segments Sl–S2.