Fluorescent Histochemistry and Cholinesterase Staining of Sympathetic Ganglia in a Teleost, Gadus morrhua

The anatomy and histochemistry of the sympathetic nervous system in the cod were studied by osmic acid staining, cholinesterase staining and fluorescent histochemistry of ganglia and nerve fibres. Large bundles of fluorescent fibres from the sympathetic ganglia in the head enter the cranial nerves and run with these. These bundles are exceptionally large to the vagi, and the cod vagi may therefore be regarded as vago-sympathetic trunks. All the sympathetic ganglion cells contain specific (acetyl-) cholinesterase, although the degree of staining was variable. The vast majority of cells in the ganglion coeliacum and other anterior ganglia show specific fluorescence of variable intensity. Ganglion cells completely devoid of specific fluorescence are scarce in the anterior ganglia, but abundant in the posterior ganglia associated with the vesicular nerve. A separate and distinct bundle of medullated fibres leaves the sympathetic chain on the left side and spreads in the wall of the left posterior cardinal vein, presumably innervating the chromaffin tissue. Similar fibres on the right side are also present, but do not form a distinct nerve.

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