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Sympathetic innervation of the pulmonary artery, ascending aorta, and coronar glomera of the rabbit

A fluorescence microscopic study

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Adrenergic nerve fibres were demonstrated in the connective tissue of the rabbit coronar glomera by means of the formaldehyde-induced fluorescence technique for catecholamines. This type of innervation is similar to the adrenergic nerve supply to the rabbit and cat carotid body. Adrenergic fibres terminate subendothelially and only a few can be traced to type I cells in the glomera coronaria. The sympathetic innervation of the ascending aorta is exceedingly sparse in contrast to the pulmonary trunk, while vasa vasorum of the ascending aorta exhibit a dense sympathetic innervation.

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  1. Anatomisches Institut der Universität Münster, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    E. -W. Kienecker & H. Knoche

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Kienecker, E.W., Knoche, H. Sympathetic innervation of the pulmonary artery, ascending aorta, and coronar glomera of the rabbit. Cell Tissue Res. 188, 329–333 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222641

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