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. 2014 Jan 29;2014(1):52–77. doi: 10.5339/gcsp.2014.11

Figure 7.

Figure 7.

Presence of sympathetic nerves in the aortic root. Panel A shows the whole aortic root (stained for tyrosine hydroxylase), Panels B–E (stained for tyrosine hydroxylase) and F–I (stained for neurofilament protein) show nerve bundles at a higher magnification in the sinotubular junction (STJ) sinus area, hinge region of the cusp, and in the annular region (from Chester et al., 2008). 118