MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX
MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.901090102
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ATWOOD, RP
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作者:
BRAITENBERG, V;ATWOOD, RP
Histological differentiation in two perpendicular directions (lattice structure) characterizes the cerebellar cortex among all other grey sheets. Some of the geometrical invariants throughout the whole sheet are: constant thickness of the molecular layer; constant relation between number of Purkinje cells, volume of molecular layer and volume of granular layer; perpendicular orientation of "parallel fibers" and Purkinje dendritic trees; existence of a horizontal fiber system oriented across the folium (perpendicular to parallel fibers). Since direction of foliation and of parallel fibers can practically be equated, expansion (anterior vermis, center of the hemisphere) and contraction (middle part of vermis, margin of the sheet) of the folial pattern evident on planar projections, as well as discontinuity of the folia (posterior vermis) indicate local distortions of the histological lattice. A simple regional subdivision of the mammalian cerebellum can be based on these local distortions of the overall lattice. Counts of granular and Purkinje cells (1,000,000 and 300/mm,2 respectively) suggest convergence of about 3000/1. Volumetric considerations suggest that parallel fibers cannot be longer than 1-10 mm. The thinness of parallel fibers, indicating slow conduction, the parallelity and flattening of Purkinje trees suggests a mechanism of time-place transformation, or "timed pick-up" in the folial direction. Methods include a new modification of the Golgi reaction on formalin fixed material.