Sympathetic afferents enter through the stellate ganglia and the spinal cord and terminate in the nucleus of the solitary tract, 23 leading to increased sympathetic outflow. Both the local effect ...

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that affects the sympathetic nervous system of children. It is unusual among cancers because it shows a range of outcomes: from aggressive, potentially fatal progression to a ...

Results and Discussion. OCT was able to identify tissue types in rat basal ganglia nuclei and delineate their positions in real time, as shown in Figure 1.It also could identify striatal cells that ...

Sympathetic ganglia are neural-crest-derived structures in which proliferating neuroblasts mature into postmitotic sympathetic neurons; these neurons express the NGF receptor TrkA and become ...

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have highlighted the deleterious role of high phosphate intake in hypertension by means of sympathetic overactivation, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Dietary ...

In Hirschsprung's disease, certain types of nerve cells (ganglion cells) are missing from a part of the bowel. In areas without such nerves, the muscle within the bowel wall does not contract to push ...