Brain stem localization of neurons of the subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve fibres in the ferret (Mustela Putorius Furo): a WGA-HRP neurohistochemical study
West Indian veterinary journal
; 5(2): 4-9, Dec. 2005. tab
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ABSTRACT
The brain stem localization of neurons of nerve fibres in the ventral and dorsal abdominal vagal trunks were studied in the ferret. A total of 14 adult ferrets (six experimental and eight controls) were used for the study. Following anesthesia with pentobarbitone sodium, an upper midline laparotomy was done to expose the abdominal trunks of the vagus nerve. After dissecting the trunks clear of the abdominal oesophagus and the cardia of the stomach the nerve trunks were cut and WGA-HRP was applied to the proximal stump of the cut trunks. Control ferrets were divided into four groups of two ferrets. In the first group normal saline instead of the tracer was applied to the proximal stump of the vagal trunks. The second group was treated in a similar manner as the experimental animal except that the application of tracer was preceded by bilateral cervical vagotomy. In the third group of controls 0.1 ml of WGA-HRP was injected into the abdominal cavity and the fourth group had tracer injection into the hepatic portal vein. All animals were allowed a survival period of 48-72 hours after tracer injection following which each animal was perfused with normal saline, fixative and buffered sucrose. The brain stem was extracted and cut in transverse section (40 µm with the freezing microtome. Sections were then processed for WGA-HRP neurohistochemistry and subsequently viewed and analyzed under light/dark-field illuminations. In the experimental ferrets labeled cells were seen bilaterally in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve (DMNV), the nucleus dorsomedialis (nDm), the nucleus ambiguus (nA) and the nucleus retroambiguus (nrA). The DMNV was the most intensely labeled nucleus. Sporadic distribution of labeled cells was also observed in the reticular formation (rf) between the nA and the DMNV. Labeled neurons were not seen in any of the control experiments.
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Assunto principal:
Nervo Vago
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Conjugado Aglutinina do Germe de Trigo-Peroxidase do Rábano Silvestre
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Furões
Limite:
Animais
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
West Indian veterinary journal
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
The University of the West Indies/Trinidad and Tobago
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University of Sheffield/England