This is a dorsal root ganglion (DRG) from a chicken embryo (around stage of day 7) after incubation overnight in NGF growth medium stained with anti-neurofilamentantibody. Axons growing out of the ganglion are visible.
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| colspan="2" |A spinal nerve with its anterior and posterior roots.
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|g. sensorium nervi spinalis
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|Precursor
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|MeSH
|colspan="2"|[A08.340.390.340]
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
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In anatomy and neurology, the dorsal root ganglion (or spinal ganglion) is a nodule on a dorsal root that contains cell bodies of neurons in afferentspinal nerves. All of the axons in the dorsal root convey somatosensory information, bringing sensory information into the brain and spinal cord. These neurons are of the unipolar type, meaning they have only one projection. The dorsal root ganglia lie along the vertebral columna by the spine. The dorsal root ganglia develop in the embryo from neural crest cells.
