Histological study of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system in scrapie disease of sheep

Abstract

This work records the results of a study of the spinal cords, spinal sensory ganglia, sympathetic ganglia, Gasserian ganglia and neurones in the adrenal glands of sheep affected with scrapie disease.

It was suggested that many minor changes in sympathetic ganglia may be of a non -specific nature and it was concluded that there was no significant morphological difference, including vacuolation of neurones, between the gelglia of clinically healthy sheep and those with scrapie disease.