Sources of autonomic innervation of the appendix

Summary An experimental investigation of the sources of the sympathetic and parasympthetic innervation of the appendix was carried out by Bielschowsky Gros method. The sympathetic innervation is effected by the solar plexus ganglia. Participation of the ventral sacral roots in the parasympathetic innervation is doubtful, whereas participation of the vagus is more probable. Due to the obscurity of morphological results obtained it may only be supposed that the fibers of the cranial and the sacral parasympathetic do not terminate on the cells of the appendix ganglia, but are connected with it through an intermediate link of intraganglionic neurons.(Presented by Active Member AMN SSSR V. N. Ternovskii) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 57, No. 2, No. 113-116, February, 1964