Cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity in cat extra-adrenal paraganglia.
In the cat peripheral dopaminergic organs such as the carotid body, subclavian bodies, aortico-pulmonary glomera and small intensively fluorescent cell (SIF cell) clusters of the superior cervical ganglion and the nodose ganglion were found to contain cholecystokinin (CCK)-immunoreactive paraganglionic cells. Thus, the extra-adrenal paraganglionic system may serve as a model for studying peripheral interactions of CCKergic and dopaminergic mechanisms.
D000818:Animals; D001016:Aortic Bodies / Q000378:metabolism; D002344:Carotid Body / Q000378:metabolism; D002415:Cats; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000378:metabolism; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D009620:Nodose Ganglion / Q000378:metabolism; D010234:Paraganglia, Nonchromaffin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012844:Sincalide / Q000378:metabolism*
D012844:Sincalide