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By A. Ya. Khabarova. Translated from the Russian By Basil Haigh. Price, $12.50. Pp 175, with illustrations. Consultants Bureau Enterprises, Inc., 227 W 17th St, New York 11, NY, 1963.

Brian F. Hoffman, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(3):321-322.

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Khabarova begins her treatise with a lengthy survey of anatomical investigations (mainly Russian) which deal with organ afferents. Her own experimentation and histological examinations indicate that an extensive afferent nerve net also exists intramurally within the heart. Sections of pathological specimens of human hearts and normal animal hearts (cat, sheep, goat) were generally stained by the Bielschowsky-Gros method and examined microscopically. Some animals had previously undergone right or left cervical vagotomy or bilateral extirpation of dorsal spinal ganglia (C-8 to T-1 through T-6). The detailed descriptions and photographs of stained afferent endings within different areas of the heart are an interesting and real contribution which does add to the previously documented information about the afferent innervation of heart. However, the organization of this afferent supply, as indicated by Khabarova, does seem to be more complex than is necessary. This admittedly subjective feeling was heightened by the very spare description of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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