Ultrastructural Evidence for Adrenergic Innervation of the Interstitial Gland in the Guinea Pig Ovary

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Fluorescence microscopy has shown that the guinea pig ovary contains not only vasomotor adrenergic nerves but also many nerve terminals running within endocrine structures. Electron microscopy of the interstitial gland confirmed the presence of adrenergic nerves distinguished by administration of the false transmitter, 5-hydroxydopamine. Axon varicosities, denuded of their Schwann cell ensheathing, innervated the endocrine cells in the interstitial gland, with a synaptic distance of approximately 400 Å. This suggests that the interstitial gland participates in a neuroendocrine transducer mechanism.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEN

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Neuroendocrinology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0028-3835

Title: Neuroendocrinology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0028-3835

ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0194

Publication date Subscription-year: 1975

Publication date (Print): 1975

Publication date (Electronic): 20 March 2008

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Pages: 40-47

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Departments of Histology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Zoology, University of Lund, Lund

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Publisher ID: 122339 Other ID: Neuroendocrinology 1975;17:40–47

DOI: 10.1159/000122339

PubMed ID: 1121361

SO-VID: 912055a7-9494-40fc-b9a3-5ba7bcf8c405

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Date received : 10 June 1974

Date accepted : 08 September 1974

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Pages: 8

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