Book Review: Comparative Anatomy and Histology: A Mouse, Rat, and Human Atlas
Book Review: Comparative Anatomy and Histology: A Mouse, Rat, and Human Atlas
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书评：比较解剖学和组织学：小鼠、大鼠和人类图谱
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2018
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Kristi L. Helke
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比较解剖学和组织学：由Treuting，Dintzis和Montine编辑的小鼠，大鼠和人类地图集是许多病理学家的关键和重要文本。第一版的目标受众是比较病理学家。在第二版中增加了老鼠，扩大了观众，包括毒理学和工业病理学家。这段文字也是有用的医学博士病理学家检查啮齿动物组织，以及兽医学生，病理学实习生，和那些扩大他们的工作范围或过渡职业。这篇文章也作为一个快速资源经验丰富的病理学家。除了将文本扩展到包括大鼠（第一版仅关注小鼠和人类）并包含一个新的章节外，整个文本已经重新调整，以便所有章节都具有类似的格式和更直观的流程，使本书更容易阅读和使用。有关于尸检和表型的章节，最新的一章是关于成像和免疫组织化学的14页入门书。提供实用和有用的信息，审查显微镜，免疫组织化学，数字成像和定量显微镜。本章没有详细介绍这些技术，因为这些技术不断更新/新方法。相反，它检查了基础知识，并解释了所使用的方法和更广泛的概念，包括描述如何验证免疫组织化学抗体的流程图。器官系统的章节现在是一致的组织，其次是组织学特征的大体外观的描述。每一章还包括种属间大体和组织解剖学差异的汇总表。照片和显微照片是丰富的，增加了文本。两种啮齿动物（大鼠和小鼠）进行了讨论，任何差异提到，然后人体组织也讨论了器官的大体和组织学图像。还描述了相关器官的性别差异（唾液腺、肾上腺）。其中几个章节已经扩展，在需要的地方提供了更多细节，例如内分泌章节现在添加了脑垂体和松果体以确保完整性。一个小的美学观点是，以前的版本有“需要知道”的子弹，与文本和图像分开，很容易看到。在最新版本中，这些项目符号与章节的文本更加一致，而不是为了便于参考而单独列出。编辑们处理这样一本规模和质量的书必须受到赞扬。他们聚集了一些最著名的比较病理学家（有58个贡献者）作为24章的作者，并参与了超过50%的章节的作者身份。这个版本有很大的改进，值得购买，即使你已经有了第一版。仅仅是章节的重组就使得文本可读性更强，值得升级，但正是老鼠的加入才使交易达成。
Comparative Anatomy and Histology: A Mouse, Rat, and Human Atlas, edited by Treuting, Dintzis, and Montine, is a critical and essential text for many pathologists. The target audience in the first edition was comparative pathologists. The addition of the rat in the second edition expands the audience to include the toxicologic and industrial pathologist. This text is also useful for MD pathologists examining rodent tissue, as well as veterinary students, pathology trainees, and those expanding their scope of work or transitioning careers. This text also serves as a quick resource for seasoned pathologists. In addition to the expansion of the text to include rats (the first edition focused only on mice and humans) and the inclusion of a new chapter, the entire text has been realigned so that all chapters have a similar format and a more intuitive flow, making the book easier to both read and use. There are chapters on necropsy and phenotyping, and the newest chapter is a 14page primer on imaging and immunohistochemistry. Practical and useful information is provided that reviews microscopy, immunohistochemistry, digital imaging, and quantitative microscopy. The chapter does not go into great detail as these are technologies with continual updates/new methodologies. Instead, it examines basics and explains methods used and broader concepts, including a flowchart that describes how to validate antibodies for immunohistochemistry. The organ system chapters are now consistently organized by tissue, with a description of the gross appearance followed by histological features. A summary table of gross and histologic anatomic differences among species is also included in each chapter. Photographs and photomicrographs are abundant and add to the text. Both rodents (rats and mice) are discussed, with any differences mentioned, and then human tissues are also discussed with gross and histological images of the organs. Sex differences in organs are also described where relevant (salivary gland, adrenal gland). Several of the chapters have been expanded, providing more detail where needed, such as the endocrine chapter that now has the addition of pituitary and pineal glands for completeness. One minor aesthetic point is that the previous edition had “need to know” bullets that were separate from the text and images and were easily seen. With the latest edition, these bullets are more aligned with the text of the chapters and not as distinct for easy reference. The editors must be commended for tackling a book of this magnitude and quality. They have corralled some of the best-known comparative pathologists (there are 58 contributors) as authors of the 24 chapters as well as participating in authorship of over 50% of the chapters themselves. This edition is much improved and worth purchasing even if you already have the first edition. The reorganization of the chapters alone makes for a much more readable text and worth the upgrade, but it is the addition of the rat that seals the deal.