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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2008 Mar 18;153(3):733–750. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.02.074

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Alpha-synuclein-positive neurons (A), varicosities (D) and axons (F) were present in the myenteric plexus of the stomach of sham rats with their vagal efferent innervation intact. Vagotomy did not eliminate the presence of alpha-synuclein-positive neurons in the myenteric plexus (B,C); however, vagotomy did dramatically reduced the presence of both alpha-synuclein-positive varicosities within ganglia (B,C,E) and alpha-synuclein-positive axons in fiber bundles (G). Innervation of the longitudinal muscle of the forestomach and innervation of blood vessels by alpha-synuclein-positive axons was still present in the stomach of vagotomized rats; images not shown. Scale bar in G = 25 µm for A,B,D,E; 40 µm for C,F,G.