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  • Title: Ability of each lumbar splanchnic nerve and disability of thoracic ones to generate seminal emission in the dog.
    Author: Kihara K, Sato K, Ando M, Sato T, Oshima H.
    Journal: J Urol; 1992 Jan; 147(1):260-3. PubMed ID: 1729543.
    Abstract:
    Control of seminal emission by canine thoracolumbar splanchnic nerves which constitute the caudal mesenteric plexus (inferior mesenteric and superior hypogastric plexuses in human) was investigated. Electrical stimulation of a splanchnic nerve group which branched from sympathetic trunks at thoracic and L1 ganglia and descended on the ventral wall of the aorta between bilateral spermatic arteries via the intermesenteric plexus did not cause seminal emission in all 13 dogs examined. In contrast, electrical stimulation of the other splanchnic nerve group which branched from lumbar sympathetic trunks at ganglia L1-L5 and descended behind bilateral spermatic arteries induced seminal emission regardless of branching levels or sides. The results indicate that efferent signals via the intermesenteric plexus do not generate seminal emission, while those via each lumbar splanchnic nerve have ability to generate seminal emission in the dog.
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