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Figure 5

From: Peripheral cranio-spinal nerve communication for trapezius muscle control using axonal profiling through immunostaining

Figure 5

The motor, proprioceptive, and sympathetic axons of the accessory (CNXI), C3, and C4 nerves. (A) The images show immunofluorescence staining for NF200, ChAT, ATP1A3, and TH in the three nerves. The percentages of axons with ChAT (cholinergic), ATP1A3 (proprioceptive), and TH (sympathetic) in total axons (NF200) and the number of axons per fascicle are presented. (B) Graph illustrating the proportions of motor, proprioceptive, others, and sympathetic axons of the three nerves per fascicle. Detailed percentages are presented in Table 3. NF200, neurofilament 200; ChAT, choline acetyltransferase; ATP1A3, alpha 3 sodium potassium ATPase; CNXI, 11th cranial nerve; TH, tyrosine hydroxylase.

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