Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates Volume I
Most scientists agree that the 21st century will be the "Century of Biology". The revolution that started a few decades ago with the extraordinary develop ment of molecular biology, has provided the basis for the understanding of the mechanisms that govern life through the regulation of c...
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Vienna
Springer Vienna
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
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Table of Contents:
- General concept of the nervous system
- Review of research methods and resulting discoveries
- Components of the nervous tissue
- Morphology of nerve cells (Continuation)
- Physiologic inferences from the morphology and connectivity of neurons
- Structure of the nerve cell; Physiologic inferences based on the cell structure
- Continuation of the physiologic interpretation of neuronal structure
- Neuroglia
- Nerve fibers
- Neural centers; Spinal cord
- Structure of the white matter of the spinal cord
- Structure of gray matter
- Commissural and funicular cells
- Distribution of funicular cells in various regions of the gray matter
- Sensory neurons, i.e. neurons with somata outside the spinal cord sending axons to the cord
- Endings of peripheral processes of spinal ganglion cells
- Central processes of sensory neurons
- Neuroglia of the gray matter of the spinal cord
- Physiologic inferences based on a new structural concept of the spinal cord; Reflex movements