| Abstract: | A histochemical investigation was made of the intramural nervous system of the albino rat duodenum under normal conditions and after bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Morphometric and microspectrofluorometric observations showed a decrease in the number of detectable nerve fibers and in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in them after a transient rise in these indices on the first day after vagotomy, followed by a return to their original levels.Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Internal Medicine, N. I. Pirogov Second Moscow Medical Institute. (Presenten by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR Yu. M. Lopukhin.) Translated from Byulletin' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 757–760, June, 1978. |
