[The cholinergic and adrenergic innervation of the great cerebral vein]

Comparative histochemical study of the nervous apparatus of the large cerebral vein system (Galen's vein) and its influxes--the interior cerebral veins and the veins of the cerebral basis, was performed in cats, rats, guinea-pigs, and humans. Deep cerebral veins were found to be rather well supplied with cholin- and adrenergic nerves. Paravasal, surface and deep adventitious plexuses are a single nervous formation having unequal structure on different depth of the vessel wall. No difference was found between the concentration of cholin- and adrenergic nerves in the wall of the large cerebral vein and its influxes in rats, cats and guinea-pigs. The density of the nervous plexus on 1 mm2 of the total preparation of the large cerebral vein wall and its influxes increases in the row: rat--guinea-pig--cat--humans.