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Concentration of monoamines and energy metabolism mechanisms was investigated in neurons of the stellate ganglion (SG) and ganglia of the thoracic sympathetic trunk Th6-Th10 (GTST) using histochemical techniques and computer analysis. Intensification of monoamine fluorescence and energy metabolism enzyme activity was found in SG neurons during both cold and emotional stress. Such changes were only observed during development of hypothermia in GTST. Selective neuronal activation is thought to take place in paravertebral ganglia under different types of stressful action.
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Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 771–779, November–December, 1990.
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Lapsha, V.I., Bocharova, V.N. Cytophotometric study of monoamines and energy exchange enzymes in paravertebral ganglia neurons during cold and emotional stress. Neurophysiology 22, 567–573 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052149
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