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THE presence of reflex activity mediated through autonomic ganglia without relay through the spinal cord has long been debated. Such a reflex would require sensory perikarya in the periphery. It is generally accepted, however, that sensory perikarya are exclusively localized in the dorsal root ganglia1. A contrary view was advocated by the morphologist Dogiel2 in the 1890s, but since then histologists have not confirmed this work.
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PURINTON, T., FLETCHER, T. & BRADLEY, W. Sensory Perikarya in Autonomic Ganglia. Nature New Biology 231, 63–64 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio231063a0
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