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Ventricular Nerve Cells in Mammals

1953; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 172; Issue: 4383 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/172812a0

1476-4687

G. A. G. Mitchell, Royal L. Brown, Frank B. Cookson,

Congenital heart defects research

DAVIES et al. 1 stated that : "It is widely believed that, in mammals generally, cardiac nerve cells are limited to the atria, extending at the most as far distally as the base of the ventricles near the atrio-ventricular sulcus", and they list an impressive number of orders, including primates, to which this statement applies. They found that only in Artio-dactyla and Cetacea were ventricular nerve cells abundant, and they noted that in these the majority of the subepicardial neurons were unipolar or bipolar, with multipolar cells in a minority.