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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 205, Issue 1, 16 February 1996, Pages 65-67
Neuroscience Letters

Intrinsic neuronal cell bodies in the rat ovary☆

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Abstract

The present study describes ganglia and isolated neurones in the ovary of the Wistar rat, employing histological and histochemical techniques. Four kinds of ganglia in the postpubertal and young adult rat were identified: the mesovarial, hilar, medullary and cortical ganglia. Isolated neurones were also found, being dispersed along blood vessels in the ovary medulla and near the follicles. The soma diameters of these neuronal cells ranged from 25 to 50 μm. In the prepubertal rat, only the mesovarial and hilar ganglia were observed. They contained small neurones with soma diameters ranging from 10 to 15 μm. NADPH-diaphorase activity was detected in some isolated neurones and in the cortical and hilar ganglia in all rats examined.

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Supported in part by Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA), Montevideo, Uruguay.

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