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A cholinergic propriospinal innervation of the rat spinal cord
1Department of Physiology, University of Leeds, UK.
Brain Research
|January 14, 1994
Abstract:
Previous work has suggested the presence of a widespread, intrinsic cholinergic innervation of the spinal cord. A combination of retrograde axonal tract tracing and choline acetyltransferase immunocytochemistry was used to show that there is a propriospinal cholinergic innervation of the rat spinal cord that arises from short-range projections (spanning up to six spinal segments) of cholinergic neurons known as 'central canal' and 'partition' cells.