PMID: 3772028Sep 1, 1986Paper

Origins of the sympathetic projections to rat thyroid and parathyroid glands

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System
H E RomeoD P Cardinali

Abstract

The present study aimed to characterize the localization and pathways of sympathetic neurons innervating the thyroid and parathyroid glands. In rats subjected to unilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy or unilateral decentralization of the superior cervical ganglion 7 days earlier, ipsilateral depression of thyroid norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine content to 6-16% of the contralateral intact lobe was observed. In both groups of animals neuronal [3H]NE uptake by the ipsilateral thyroid lobe was suppressed. In unilaterally decentralized rats pineal catecholamine levels remained within normal values whereas in unilaterally ganglionectomized rats a 74% decrease of pineal NE and E content was found. Unilateral section of the external carotid nerve abolished, as did unilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy, neuronal [3H]NE uptake in the ipsilateral thyroid lobe. In contrast external carotid nerve section did not modify the neuronal uptake of [3H]NE in the pineal gland. Either unilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy or external carotid nerve section resulted in similar involution of ipsilateral thyroid lobes of hypophysectomized rats. These results indicate that postganglionic sympathetic perikarya innervating the thyroi...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1988·Journal of Neural Transmission·M BarontiniD P Cardinali
Mar 1, 1988·Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System·J B GarcíaD P Cardinali
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