The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum from Myxinoids Through Birds
The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum from Myxinoids Through Birds
复制标题
从 Myxinoids 到鸟类小脑的比较解剖学和组织学
DOI：
10.7326/0003-4819-67-1-233_5
复制
发表时间：
1967
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
R. P. Eager
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
R. P. Eager
这卷是第一个两个致力于胚胎学，比较解剖学和组织学的小脑，并涵盖了工作所做的结构，从圆口动物通过鸟类。即将出版的第二卷将涉及哺乳动物的小脑，直到人类。拉塞尔博士漫长的科学生涯几乎完全致力于小脑的研究，他在中枢神经系统这一复杂区域的丰富经验反映在第一卷的一贯高质量上。一个主要的信贷必须给予教授扬詹森谁，拉塞尔博士于1964年去世后，承担了重任，看到完成这项重大工作。他对小脑及其文献的了解也为这本专著的质量做出了重大贡献。这本书不适合随便阅读，但对于那些研究小脑形态学的学生和其他人来说，这本书的介绍性章节将是一本令人愉快的书，他们希望对与大脑这一部分解剖学有关的复杂术语的演变进行简洁的历史叙述。剩下的章节以一种详细的方式总结了关于小脑的已知情况--它的发育、大体形态学和组织学--从最原始的活脊椎动物--粘液类动物开始，在粘液类动物中，小脑是可以辨认出的基本形式。当可用时，小脑和中枢神经系统其他相关区域的纤维连接的实验研究结果也包括在内。由于目前哺乳动物小脑形态组织的概念在很大程度上是基于这些比较研究的观察结果，其中大部分是由拉塞尔博士完成的，因此第一卷具有重要的综合功能，其中的信息与理解哺乳动物小脑组织有关。因此，它无疑将是未来几年的关键参考来源。涉及两栖动物（有尾目和无尾目）、爬行动物和鸟类小脑的章节特别好，占了书的一半以上。大多数插图都非常清晰，其中许多是原创的。文本，虽然充满了详细的信息，是相当可读的，参考书目是详尽无遗的。书中有一些编辑上的疏漏（在第285页，列维-蒙塔尔奇诺应该是列维-蒙塔尔奇尼;图237的图例应该是“小脑中退化的脊髓小脑束的末端分布”），但这些都丝毫无损于本书的整体质量，它是对小脑文献的重大贡献，也是一个人对他的主题的奉献的纪念碑。
This volume is the first of two to be devoted to the embryology, comparative anatomy, and histology of the cerebellum and covers the work done on that structure from cyclostomes through birds. A second volume, to be published soon, will deal with the cerebellum of mammals, through man. Dr. Larsell's long scientific life was devoted almost entirely to studies of the cerebellum, and his extensive experience with this complex region of the central nervous system is reflected in the consistent high quality of this first volume. A major credit must be given to Professor Jan Jansen who, upon Dr. Larsell's death in 1964, assumed the heavy responsibility of seeing to the completion of this major work. His knowledge of the cerebellum and its literature has contributed significantly to the quality of this monograph, as well. This is not a book for casual reading, although the introductory chapter will be a delight to those students of cerebellar morphology, and others, who would like a succinct historic account of the evolution of the complex terminology relating to the anotomy of this part of the brain. The remaining chapters summarize, in a detailed manner, what is known about the cerebellum-its development, gross morphology and histology-beginning with the most primitive living vertebrates, the myxinoids, in which a cerebellum is recognizable in rudimentary form. When available, the results of experimental investigations on the fiber connections of the cerebellum and other related areas of the central nervous system are included as well. Since present concepts of mammalian cerebellar morphological organization are based, in great measure, on observations from these comparative studies, most of which were done by Dr. Larsell, this first volume serves an important synthesizing function and the information in it is related importantly to an understanding of mammalian cerebellar organization. As such, it will be undoubtedly a key reference source for years to come. The chapters dealing with the cerebella of amphibians (urodeles and anurans), reptiles and birds are especially good and constitute more than half the book. Most of the illustrations are superbly clear and many of them original. The text, although filled with detailed information, is quite readable, and the bibliography is exhaustive. There are some editorial lapses (on p. 285, Levi-Montalcino should be Levi-Montalcini; the legend to Fig. 237 should read, "terminal distribution of the degenerating spinocerebellar tracts in the cerebellum"), but these in no way detract from the book's over-all quality, and it stands as a major contribution to the cerebellar literature and as a monument to one man's devotion to his subject.