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THE INNERVATION OF INTRACRANIAL ARTERIES: CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES Junichiro Kawamura 1 pp.473-478
Published Date 1975/5/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406203703
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The following subjects are reviewed in this paperwith a special attention to the ultrastructuralstudies:

1) Are intracranial arteries innervated?

2) The nature of the vascular nerves of intra-cranial blood vessels.

3) The origin of those nerve fibers.

4) Their functional significance.

Ultrastructural studies show both myelinated andunmyelinated nerve fivers along the intracranialarteries in their extracerebral courses. A "true"innervation of those arteries is supported by theevidence of nerve terminals containing granular(adrenergic) and/or agranular (cholinergic) synapticvesicles and neuromuscular contacts in the vascularadventitia. There are however only a few finestructural studies on the innervation of intracerebralblood vessels, of which some show unmyelinated aswell as myelinated nerve fibers along some of theintraparenchymal vasculatures.

Fluorescence histochemical techniques allow thedemonstration of both adrenergic and cholinergicnerve fibers along intracranial arteries. A recentstudy reveals central (non-sympathetic) adrenergicfibers on microvasculatures in the brain parenchyma,which appear originating from the locus ceruleusand are considered to regulate intracerebral micro-circulation. The latter finding should require furtherstudies by electron microscopy.

The functional significance of the vascular nervesinnervating cerebral arteries is still unknown, buton the basis of ultrastructural findings so far des-cribed they appear to play a certain role in theregulation of vascular dynamics of the brain.


Copyright © 1975, Igaku-Shoin Ltd. All rights reserved.

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