Do the substance P-ergic vagus afferents in cats reinnervate the deafferented superior cervical ganglion?
By ligating specific nerves in the cat, the central processes of the nodose ganglion (NG) cells containing substance P-like immunoreactive materials were shown, immunohistochemically, to run through the cross-anastomosis made between the cranial end of the NG and the caudal end of the superior cervical ganglion (SCG), and to reach the portions cranial to the SCG without making synaptic contacts with the SCG cells.
D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000502:physiology*; D013373:Substance P / Q000502:physiology*; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology*
D013373:Substance P