[The participation of the celiac plexus in the innervation of the bronchi and pulmonary vessels].

Nerves and receptors of the bronchial and vascular walls have been studied in dogs, cats and rabbits after extirpation of the celiac plexus, subdiaphragmatic vagotomy and cutting the celiac plexus under the diaphragm. In all the animals operated on and sacrificed 16 h-9 days later, besides intact nerves, there were many neural fibres and receptors reactively and destructively changed. Some neural elements were at the state of Waller's decomposition. Owing to the data obtained, it is possible to conclude that the celiac plexus and the abdominal part of the vagus nerve and that of the celiac nerve participate in innervation of the bronchi and the pulmonary vessels.