Cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after elective surgery to treat palmar sweating

The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.

Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
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After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Spinal cord infarction occurring during thoraco-lumbar sympathectomy
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1963;26:418-421 doi:10.1136/jnnp.26.5.418

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Neurogenic and non-neurogenic inflammation in the rat paw following chemical sympathectomy

Neurogenic and non-neurogenic inflammation in t... [Neuroscience. 1991] - PubMed - NCBI: "Neuroscience. 1991;45(3):761-5.
Neurogenic and non-neurogenic inflammation in the rat paw following chemical sympathectomy.
Donnerer J1, Amann R, Lembeck F.
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Abstract
Rats with chemical sympathectomy, induced either at neonatal age (long-term sympathectomy) or in adult animals (short-term sympathectomy) by guanethidine or by 6-hydroxydopamine, were used to determine the contribution of sympathetic noradrenergic fibres to afferent neuron-mediated responses and to non-neurogenic inflammation in the rat. Following long-term sympathectomy with 6-hydroxydopamine there was a 66% depletion of noradrenaline in the paw skin. This was accompanied by a 20-53% increase in the levels of sensory neuropeptides in the paw skin and sciatic nerve. A hypersensitivity towards heat stimuli was observed in the tail immersion test. "