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"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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Fertility following sympathectomy
Both chemically and surgically induced sympathectomy increased the weight of the epididymis and seminal vesicles/coagulating glands as well as the number and the transit time of cauda epididymal sperm. Neither serum testosterone levels nor LH was affected by treatment with guanethidine. Using natural mating, no litters were produced by guanethidine-treated rats. Chemically denervated rats failed to produce copulatory plugs or ejaculate into the uterus. However, distal cauda epididymal sperm from chemically or surgically denervated rats displayed normal fertilization ability (80%) using in utero inseminations.
Biology of Reproduction 59, 897-904 (1998)
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Wilma De G. Kempinas2,a , Juan D. Suarezb , Naomi L. Robertsb , Lillian F. Straderb , Janet Ferrellb , Jerome M. Goldmanb , Michael G. Narotskyb , Sally D. Perreaultb , Donald P. Evensonc , Deborah D. Rickerd , , and Gary R. Klinefelterb
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