the absence of similar changes in specimens from rats in which the vagus nerve was sectioned above the nodose ganglion , and in rats in which the branches from the ganglion were sectioned , indicated that the intraepithelial axons are derived from neurons whose perikarya are located in the ganglion and is consistent with the view that the axons are afferent .
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