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Distribution of primary sensory nerve terminals in the cat urinary bladder wall
Abstract:
Distribution of the primary sensory nerve terminals has been investigated in the cat urinary bladder wall in the normal state and after extirpation of certain spinal ganglia. In the normal state the adventitia of the bladder base contained simple sensory corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles and free nerve endings. In the bladder wall the afferent nerve endings appeared to be free nerve endings without terminal modification. After extirpation of spinal ganglia, some of the nerve fibres degenerated and were located mostly in the trigone and the ventral neck regions of the bladder. After 7 days neither Pacinian nor simple sensory nerve corpuscles could be observed in the wall.
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