title: A cholinergic propriospinal innervation of the rat spinal cord.
abstract: Previous work has suggested the presence of a widespread, intrinsic cholinergic innervation of the spinal cord. A combination of retrograde axonal tract tracing and choline acetyltransferase immunocytochemistry was used to show that there is a propriospinal cholinergic innervation of the rat spinal cord that arises from short-range projections (spanning up to six spinal segments) of cholinergic neurons known as 'central canal' and 'partition' cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Sherriff
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002795:Choline O-Acetyltransferase / Q000032:analysis*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002795:Choline O-Acetyltransferase; D000109:Acetylcholine