Effects of combined pre- and post-natal protein deprivation on the myenteric plexus of the esophagus of weanling rats: A histochemical, quantitative and ultrastructural study

Figure 2 Myenteric neurons of the esophagus taken from N (A, B, D) and D (C, E, F, G) rats, stained with the NADPH diaphorase method. Bundles of axons and varicosities of reactive neurons (arrows) are well-evidenced in N group (A, B). The space inside ganglia (*) with non-reactive neurons detected in both groups are wider in D (C, E-G) while in N a thin network of neuronal processes is evidenced (A, B, D). Both groups show reactive neurons (arrows) with irregular contours (C-G). Some neurons featured moderately intense staining both in N and D (B, C, E, F). (A-G: x 340).