Dabužinskienė, Anita

In this thesis we investigate how age and gender may affect the morphology of the stellate ganglion, We want to find if the blood vessels number and size have a direct influence on the neurons number and their size, as well investigate the possible existence of the blood ganglion barrier and how blood barrier affects the neural tissue.

Stellate ganglion is part of sympathetic nervous system. It is responsible to regulate involuntary sympathetic nervous functions and is composed of ganglion neurons and satellite glial cells surrounding the neurons. They are responsible for neurotransmission of the neurons and their metabolic changes .In the scientific literature were not plenty information about clinical significance of the satellite glial cells in the nociception.

The study reviewed stellate ganglion blockage procedure from scientific literature and investigated the age-related change of neurons size of the human stellate ganglia.