UNCHARTED CHOLINERGIC NERVES IN THE RABBIT PAROTID GLAND
- 7 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences
- Vol. 61 (2) , 127-132
- https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.1976.sp002343
Abstract
Cholinergic nerves are shown to be left in the rabbit parotid gland after avulsion of the auriculo‐temporal nerve: a cholinesterase inhibitor injected through the duct caused secretion, thereby revealing leakage of acetylcholine from cholinergic nerve endings, and acetylcholinesterase positive nerves were found histochemically. The incomplete cholinergic denervation offers an explanation to the fact that some choline acetyltransferase activity remains in the ‘denervated’ glands.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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