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However, in the rat, those authors did not find either NKA nor NKB in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and in the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi, in which, in humans, we observed NK-ir structures.
By contrast, in humans, we found NK-ir perikarya located in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, in which in the cat no immunoreactive cell bodies were found [ 15 ] . The differences observed in both species concerning the distribution of cell bodies containing NK could be due to technical considerations, since in the cat colchicine was administered in the fourth ventricle in order to accumulate the peptide in cell bodies [ 15 ] .
Thus, for example, the presence of NK in the nucleus of the solitary tract, the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, the periaqueductal gray, the spinal trigeminal nucleus, the interpeduncular nucleus, the substantia nigra, the parabrachial nucleus, and the superior and inferior colliculi indicates that NK could be involved in a broad range of physiological functions such as in cardiovascular, anti-nociceptive, nociceptive, motor, respiratory, visual and auditory mechanisms.
In vivo studies have shown that [ 3H] lofentanyl, a mu agonist, is internalized in axon terminals of rat vagus nerve and transported retrogradely in the nodose ganglion ( 29).
- 2 : Caudal end of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus