Understanding the innervation of the lumbar spine can be a daunting task. Until recently, only macroscopic visualization and crude histological techniques were available to document the presence of nerve fibers in the anterior spinal canal. Using newer immunohistochemical techniques, studies have been able to more thoroughly investigate the innervation of the anterior spinal canal. The presence...

Little is known regarding how alkali metal ions are transported in the olfactory nerve following their intranasal administration. In this study, we show that an alkali metal ion, thallium is transported in the olfactory nerve fibers to the olfactory bulb in mice. The olfactory nerve fibers of mice were transected on both sides of the body under anesthesia. A double tracer solution (thallium-201...

So far as the nerve fibers distributed in the bone marrow are concerned, the course of the incoming nerve was reported in 1900 by DUVERNEY. Papers dealing with the nerves of the bone marrow have been published later, according to STOHR (1957), by GLASER (1928), De CASTRO (1929-30), ROSSI (1932), TAKEYAMA (1936), and others. Also by MILLER and KASAHARA (1963). Nevertheless, the problem on these ...

The abdominal nerve cord of Periplaneta americana was studied utilizing light and electron microscopes. In the nerve cells, delicate granules, similar to those probably responsible for cytoplasmic basophilia, are evenly distributed in "dark" cells and clumped in "light" cells. Neuroglial cells are stained metachromatically by cresyl violet. The neuroglial cells have many processes which ramify ...

Injuries to peripheral nerve fibers induce neuropathic pain. But the involvement of adjacent uninjured fibers to pain is not fully understood. The present study aims to investigate the possible contribution of Cav3.2 T-type calcium channels in uninjured afferent nerve fibers to neuropathic pain in rats with spared nerve injury (SNI). Aβ-, Aδ- and C-fibers of the uninjured sural nerve were sensi...

Recently, in vivo confocal microscopy is used to examine the human corneal nerve fibers morphology. Corneal nerve fiber architecture and its role are studied in healthy and pathological conditions. Corneal nerves of rats were studied by nonspecific acetylcholinesterase (NsAchE) staining. NsAchE-positive subepithelial (stromal) nerve fiber has been found to be insensitive to capsaicin. Besides, ...

In this report, we describe a small schwannoma of the dural sleeve and mention that it is often difficult to differentiate this tumor from lumbar disc herniation, especially a sequestered hernia, or a discal cyst. Gadolinium-enhanced MR images were a useful preoperative examination modality for differentiating this lesion from other diseases. Microscopically, the intradural tumor was successful...

The effects of aging on myelinated nerve fibers of the central nervous system are complex. Many myelinated nerve fibers in white matter degenerate and are lost, leading to some disconnections between various parts of the central nervous system. Other myelinated nerve fibers are affected differently, because only their sheaths degenerate, leaving the axons intact. Such axons are remyelinated by ...

A comparison of the chemical composition of the nerve fibers from the corpus callosum and from the lumbosacral intradural nerve roots in man and in the dog was undertaken in order to determine whether in these two mammals the relative amount of sheathing substance is the same in t,he two divisions of the nervous system, the cal!osum representing the central and the nerve roots the peripheral sy...

We studied the nerve fibers of the human mandibular nerve using edentulous jaw cadavers. We made nitrocellulose sections and stained them with Goto's modification of Masson-Goldner's method in order to evaluate the nerve fibers using an image-analyzer. The results showed an unusual feature: a sudden increase of axonal areas during the decade of the 80s followed by a sharp return to previous lev...