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DESPITE the researches of Babkin1 and others, no definite conclusions have been reached with regard to the relative part played by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibres in the regulation of salivary secretion or the exact mode of termination of the fibres in the vicinity of the secretory units of the glands. It was considered that a histochemical study of the distribution of cholinesterase in the sub-maxillary and sublingual salivary glands of the rat might shed light on the problem.
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SNELL, R., GARRETT, J. Histochemical Appearances of Cholinesterase in the Submaxillary and Sublingual Salivary Glands of the Rat. Nature 178, 1177–1178 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781177a0
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