AT the hind end of the stellate ganglion of E l e d o n e m o s c h a t a there is a small yellow spot, about the size of a pin's head, which can be seen on examination of serial sections to consist of a closed vesicle. On account of its position it has been named the epistellar body (Young, 1929). It has been found in all the Octopods examined, though it is not always coloured yellow. Search w...

Cardiac sympathetic denervation (CSD) is reported to reduce the burden of ventricular tachyarrhythmias [ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF)] in cardiomyopathy patients, but the mechanisms behind this benefit are unknown. In addition, the relative contribution to cardiac innervation of the middle cervical ganglion (MCG), which may contain cardiac neurons and is not removed...

Myocardial infarction (MI) induces neural and electrical remodeling at scar border zones. The impact of focal MI on global functional neural remodeling is not well understood. Sympathetic stimulation was performed in swine with anteroapical infarcts (MI; n = 9) and control swine (n = 9). A 56-electrode sock was placed over both ventricles to record electrograms at baseline and during left, righ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine the sympatholytic and clinical effects of low dose high frequency ultrasound (US) applied on stellate ganglion in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) type I patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD Fourty-five patients with CRPS type I were randomly allocated into three groups. Pharmacological treatment, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), contrast bath...

The diameter of a major coronary artery, the ramus interventricularis ventralis (RIV), was measured in dogs with arrested hearts perfused by an extracorporeal circulation. The resting diastolic diameter was 1.78 +/- 0.07 mm (mean +/- SE) at a diastolic pressure of 74.2 +/- 3.4 mm Hg. Bilateral supramaximal stimulation of fibers leaving the cranial pole of the stellate ganglion decreased the dia...

The phosphorylation activity associated with a neurofilament-enriched cytoskeletal preparation isolated from the squid giant axon has been studied and compared to the phosphorylation activities in intact squid axoplasm. The high molecular weight (greater than 300 kDa) and 220-kDa neurofilament proteins are the major endogenous substrates for the kinases in the axoplasm and the neurofilament pre...


 The evidence regarding the clinical effectiveness of stellate ganglion block for treatment post-traumatic stress disorder was mixed. A randomized controlled trial included in a systematic review did not detect significant differences symptoms versus sham groups, while another significantly greater improvements between these groups. Furthermore, second detected depression, anxiety, and di...