Localization of the autonomic nerve centres of the uterine cervix in dogs

摘要

The experiment was performed on sexually mature female dogs. Operational procedures were performed according to classical surgical methods in general anaesthesia. The animals were kept alive for 21 days and subsequently put down and sectioned for thefollowing material: the brain stem, the spinal cord with all the spinal ganglia, all the ganglia of the sympathetic trunk and the ganglia and plexuses of abdominal and pelvic cavities. The material was fixed in histological slides. The localization of retrograde changes, presented here, allows certification that the autonomic and afferent nerve fibres supplying the uterine cervix in the female dog originate from the central, as well as, from the peripheral autonomic nervous system.