title: [NADPH-diaphorase-positive neurons in the sympathetic ganglia during postnatal ontogenesis].
abstract: Localization and the morphometric characteristics of NADPH-diaphorase--(NADPH-d)-positive neurons were studied in the superior cervical ganglion (SCG), stellate ganglion (SG) and the celiac ganglia (CG) in newborn, 10-, 20-, 30-, 60 and 180-day-old rats, mice and cats. No NADPH-d-positive neurons were found in rats and mice of all the age groups studied. In cats, the largest proportion of NADPH-d-positive neurons was found in the SG, the smaller one--in the SCG, while only the individual neurons we detected in the CG, irrespective of the animal age. In the SG, the proportion of NADPH-d-positive neurons increased during the first 20 days of life and then decreased after 30 days till the end of the second month. The content of NADPH-d-positive neurons in the CG and SCG d-remained unchanged during the development. There were no significant differences in the cross-sectional area between the neurons located in the different ganglia of animals from the same age group. It is concluded that the age development of NADPH-d-positive neurons in different sympathetic ganglia occured heterochronously was finished by the end of the second month of life.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Masliukov
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Emanuĭlov
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Korzina
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Shilkin
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Rumiantseva
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002415:Cats; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000254:growth & development*; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D051379:Mice; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D009252:NADPH Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D009474:Neurons / Q000201:enzymology*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D009252:NADPH Dehydrogenase