Origin of the primary efferent neurons projecting to the prostate of the dog.
The retrograde tracing technique of neuronal tracer Fast Blue was used to determine sources of origin of efferent nerve fibers supplying the prostate of the dog. After injection of Fast Blue into the canine prostate retrogradely labelled neurons were found in bilateral L3-S3 sympathetic chain ganglia, bilateral caudal mesenteric ganglion and in bilateral pelvic plexus ganglia. No Fast Blue-positive neurons were present in bilateral L1-L2 sympathetic chain ganglia and in coeliac-mesenteric ganglion complex. The vast majority of Fast Blue-positive efferent prostate-projecting neurons (56.2% +/- 1.7) were located in bilateral caudal mesenteric ganglion, whereas 28.7% +/- 1.5 of them were located in bilateral pelvic plexus ganglia and 14.9% +/- 0.5 in bilateral L3-S3 sympathetic chain ganglia. Immunohistochemical staining for tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine beta-hydroxylase was applied to determine the neurochemical character of Fast Blue-positive efferent neurons. Immunohistochemistry revealed that in all tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive Fast Blue-positive neurons immunoreactivity for dopamine beta-hydroxylase was also found (noradrenergic neurons) while all tyrosine hydroxylase-negative Fast Blue-positive neurons did not express dopamine beta-hydroxylase (non-noradrenergic neurons). In bilateral sympathetic chain ganglia, 96.4% +/- 2.1 of the prostate-projecting neurons were adrenergic and in bilateral caudal mesenteric ganglion this frequency amounted to 95.6% +/- 1.6. In bilateral pelvic plexus ganglia, 26.7% +/- 1.5 of the prostate-supplying efferent neurons did not express either tyrosine hydroxylase or dopamine beta-hydroxylase immunoreactivity which makes discussion of their cholinergic character possible.
Department of Animal Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural University, Akademicka 12, 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
Anna
A
Zacharko
Marcin Bartłomiej
MB
Arciszewski
Krzysztof
K
Wasowicz
D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000578:Amidines; D000818:Animals; D001370:Axonal Transport; D004285:Dogs / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D011467:Prostate / Q000294:innervation*
D000578:Amidines; C031455:diamidino compound 253-50