| central nervous system origins of the sympathetic nervous system outflow to white adipose tissue. | white adipose tissue (wat) is innervated by postganglionic sympathetic nervous system (sns) neurons, suggesting that lipid mobilization could be regulated by the sns [t. g. youngstrom and t. j. bartness. am. j. physiol. 268 (regulatory integrative comp. physiol. 37): r744-r751, 1995]. a viral transsynaptic retrograde tract tracer, the pseudorabies virus (prv), was used to identify the origins of the sns outflow from the brain to wat neuroanatomically. prv was injected into epididymal or inguinal ... | 1998 | 9688991 |