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Comment
. 2002 Nov;110(9):1235-7.
doi: 10.1172/JCI17047.

Dual innervation of white adipose tissue: some evidence for parasympathetic nervous system involvement

Timothy J Bartness  1
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Dual innervation of white adipose tissue: some evidence for parasympathetic nervous system involvement

Timothy J Bartness. J Clin Invest. 2002 Nov.
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Figure 1
Schematic representation of how the pseudorabies virus (PRV; red dots) retrogradely labels (red arrows) the sympathetic nervous system (SNS; black arrow, left side) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS; black arrow, right side) outflow from the brain to the white adipose tissue.
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