[Experimental studies on the parasympathetic nervous system of the trachea]

3 sheep of approximately 4 years of age were used in the experiments. In 2 sheep in the cervical part of trachea all the nervous branches reaching this organ were cut and the remaining sheep was control. The animals were alive for 21 days. The following material was sampled for investigations: medulla oblongata, cervical part of spinal cord, bilateral spinal ganglions from C1 to C8, bilateral nodus ganglion and zygomatic ganglion and left and right parts of the cervical vagus nerve. The material was fixed and cut into 15 micron sections and stained according to the modified method of Nissl. The experiments evoked vast regressive changes in the nervous cells of both central and peripheral nervous system which helped to determine the source of outlet of fibers innervating this organ. In this paper the sources of outlet for the parasympathetic nervous fibers were presented. It was found that parasympathetic nervous centers connected with trachea were located in 1/3 of the central part of nucleus parasympathicus, anterior to obex, so in this part of nucleus which is the main source of outlet for the esophageal dorsal trunk and the ventral vagus nerve.