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

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Norepinephrine loss produces motor deficits

Norepinephrine loss produces more profound motor deficits than MPTP treatment in mice

1. K. S. Rommelfanger*,
2. G. L. Edwards†,
3. K. G. Freeman†,
4. L. C. Liles*,
5. G. W. Miller‡, and
6. D. Weinshenker*,§


Departments of *Human Genetics and
‡Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; and
†Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Edited by Richard D. Palmiter, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, and approved June 25, 2007 (received for review March 27, 2007)