nervous system
• reduced cross sectional area of the dorsal cutaneous nerve
• loss of large caliber myelinated axons and unmyelinated axons in dorsal cutaneous nerve
|
• reduction but not total elimination of all peptidergic and nonpeptidergic sensory nerves associated with nociception
|
• 32% reduction in myelinated axons in the dorsal root ganglia of L4 and T13
|
• 38% loss of sensory neurons
|