Stellate ganglion innervation of the vertebro-basilar arterial system demonstrated in the rat with anterograde and retrograde WGA-HRP tracing

On the atrophy of the internal carotid artery in capybara

“…Our latest preliminary observations (which require verification) of a few cases of young capybaras (7-day-old to 1-month old) suggest the presence of TH-positive innervation in possibly the distal part of ICA contacting the middle cerebral artery arch near the optic chiasm. However, various regions of ICA in capybara might be innervated by nerves from different ganglia in a different pattern from that well defined in laboratory mammals (Arbab et al 1986(Arbab et al , 1988Tamamaki and Nojyo 1987;Suzuki et al 1988;Edvinsson et al 1989;Hardebo et al 1989;Handa et al 1990;Bleys et al 2001). Some exceptions to the normal mammalian pattern of the distribution of sympathetic nerves from the superior cervical ganglion are known.…”

“…Sympathetic nerves supplying the middle cerebral artery (MCA), the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) and its branches and part of the BA have their cell bodies in the superior cervical ganglion (Tamamaki and Nojyo 1987;Handa et al 1990). Sympathetic nerve fibres supplying the cerebral vasculature of the more posterior regions of the brain have their cell bodies in the stellate ganglion (Arbab et al 1988). In addition, cerebral blood vessels are parasympathetically innervated by nerves originating in the cranial sphenopalatine, otic, carotid, pterygopalatine and cavernous sinus ganglia (Suzuki et al 1988;Edvinsson et al 1989;Bleys et al 2001) and are innervated by sensory nerves from the trigeminal, internal carotid and first and second cervical spinal ganglia (Arbab et al 1986;Hardebo et al 1989).…”

Structural neuroplasticity following T5 spinal cord transection: increased cardiac sympathetic innervation density and SPN arborization

“…However, the stellate ganglia is not a pure cardiac sympathetic ganglion, because a small minority of its neurons innervate other structures (2,39,87). Thus, some noncardiac projecting SPNs may have been analyzed.…”

Neurobiology in primary headaches

“…The sympathetic nerves that supply the cerebral vessels arise mainly from the ipsilateral superior cervical ganglion [142] while some nerve fibers that supply the vertebral and basilar arteries originate from the inferior cervical ganglion and the stellate ganglion [3].…”