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6841680

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-6-10
pubmed:abstractText
Cell bodies of sensory and sympathetic axons projecting to skin and skeletal muscle of the cat hindlimb have been labeled retrogradely with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in order to study location, size, and numbers of the somata of these neurons. HRP was applied to the freshly transected axons of nerves supplying hairy skin (superficial peroneal, SP; sural, Su), hairy and hairless skin of the paw (medial plantar, MP), or skeletal muscle (gastrocnemius-soleus, GS). Serial sections of lumbosacral dorsal root and sympathetic ganglia were studied after standard histochemical processing. Additionally, the numbers of myelinated fibers in the same nerves were determined. All sensory somata and 99.4% of sympathetic cell bodies were located ipsilaterally. Sensory somata were commonly restricted to two adjacent dorsal root ganglia (usually L6-7 for SP, MP; L7-S1 for Su, GS). Although sympathetic somata were more widely distributed rostrocaudally, their maximum frequency always occurred in the segmental ganglia immediately rostral to the sensory outflows, i.e., corresponding to rami communicantes grisei. Dimensions of sympathetic somata varied little between populations projecting to different tissues and were unimodally distributed. The size distributions of sensory somata were characterized by a peak between 10 and 20 microns radius, similar to sympathetic somata, and a varying smaller number of cells ranging up to 60 microns radius. Each nerve had a characteristic distribution profile of afferent somata. A population of very small cells was only present in GS, while the largest sensory somata in GS and MP were bigger than those in SP and Su. Numerical analysis of the data disclosed the characteristic composition of both myelinated and unmyelinated fibers in each nerve studied.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0021-9967
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
214
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
115-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
The cell bodies of origin of sympathetic and sensory axons in some skin and muscle nerves of the cat hindlimb.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't