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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 261: R979-R984, 1991;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 4 979-R984, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Hypertrophy of stellate ganglion cells in hypertensive, but not hyperactive, rats

D. Peruzzi, E. D. Hendley and C. J. Forehand
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405.

The dendritic complexity of peripheral autonomic neurons is positively matched with the size of the target they innervate, apparently by trophic interactions with the target (D. Purves, W. D. Snider, and J. T. Voyvodic. Nature Lond. 336: 123-128, 1988). We have asked whether the vascular hypertrophy associated with hypertension is accompanied by dendritic hypertrophy of sympathetic ganglion cells. To do this, we examined the morphology of stellate ganglion cells in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), its normotensive control Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY), and two new strains derived from the SHR that independently express the hypertensive phenotype of the SHR (WKHT) and the behavioral hyperactivity present in the SHR (WKHA). Cells were examined by intracellular staining with horseradish peroxidase in in vitro preparations of the ganglia. Carotid arterial wall size was also examined. Significant hypertrophy of both the carotid arterial wall and stellate ganglion cell dendrites was observed in the two hypertensive strains (SHR and WKHT) but not in either of the normotensive strains (WKY and WKHA). This increased total dendritic length of stellate ganglion cells associated with hypertension provides a greater target area for preganglionic innervation that may result in hyperinnervation of these cells.


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