Relation to the Central Nervous System of Neural Pathways Mediating Histamine Flare and Nicotine Sweating

Abstract

Spinal cord transection, posterior rhizotomy and peripheral nerve block were shown not to interfere with the production of histamine flare or nicotine sweating. These phenomena were absent, however, following peripheral nerve section with degeneration. These observations are interpreted as supporting the concept that the cutaneous responses are mediated by axone reflexes. Submitted on April 12, 1957