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.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
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

Sunday, April 20, 2008

locus coeruleus after guanethidine sympathectomy

Cytochemical study of the neurocytes of the rat locus coeruleus after guanethidine sympathectomy


Altan G, Iarygin VN, Grigor'eva AV.

The histone localization, template activity of chromatin and epinephrine fluorescence in L. Coeruleus (LC) neurons of normal a. guanethidine sympathectomized (GS) rats (15 mg/kg during 3, 8 or 14 days after birth) were studied. The absence of chromatin rearrangements connected with genome reprogramming under sympathectomy was documented by the fact that maximal doses of guanethidine gives no changes in ammoniacal silver staining pattern. However GS caused the decrease in nuclear and extranuclear template activity and in epinephrine fluorescence proportionally with GS. It is obvious that LC cells tend to form discrete classes according to their transcription levels.



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