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RECENT investigations1,2 of the distribution of nerves in human, rabbit and dog hearts have disclosed the presence of delicate, argyrophilic fibrils disposed circularly around myocardial fibres. Hirsch1 named these fibrils the ‘perimysial plexus’, and suggested that they are the terminal post-ganglionic fibrils of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems2.
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WIDMANN, F., PRANGE, A. & BAKEWELL, W. Variable Density of Silver-stained Fibrils in the Myocardium. Nature 209, 1253–1254 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091253a0
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