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Electron-microscopic investigation of the zona fasciculata and zona reticularis of the adrenal cortex in rats showed that 7 days after bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy the perinuclear space of the adrenocorticocytes and endothelial cells is widened, the tubules of the smooth cytoplasmic reticulum are dilated, the mitochondria edematous, their cristae reduced, and the number and size of the lipid droplets diminished. After 45 days some mitochondria were starting to undergo myelinization, lipid droplets were aggregating, and electron-translucent vacuoles appeared in them. Vagotomy depresses the function of the adrenocorticocytes of the zona fasciculata and zona reticularis of the rat adrenal cortex.
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Eletskii, Y.K., Yaglov, V.V. & Yakovleva, N.Y. Ultrastructural analysis of the adrenal cortex in rats after bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Bull Exp Biol Med 83, 583–585 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00807515
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00807515