Cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery to treat sweaty palms and blushing

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.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

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

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Effect of cervical sympathectomy and circulatory hypoxia on time course of prostaglandin concentration in brain tissues

http://www.springerlink.c...ontent/j705306763158841/


Some workers suggest a possible "transmembrane" role of PG in the nervous system.


If the increase in the PG level during ischemia is regarded as a protective reaction, it must be admitted that no increase took place 1 day after CSE (cervical sympathectomy) and it was considerably weakened 7-40 days after CSE.


The effect of cerebral ischemia was virtually indistinguishable from the action of CSE itself.


It can be tentatively suggested that PGF plays the main role in the regulation of tone of the vascular wall and in the regulation of metabolism under conditions of ischemia when the sympathetic regulation is disturbed.