Spinous leafy nerve endings in the feline stomach wall.
The Champy-Maillet ZIO technique has been applied to the study of the muscular tunic of the stomach. In the corpus and antrum pyloricum some nerve fibres end in non-capsulated expansions owning thorn-like protrusions. Their morphology is studied and a possibly functional sensory significance is proposed, on the basis of previous experimental results.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006652:Histological Techniques; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000294:innervation; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013270:Stomach / Q000294:innervation*