The Spinal Cord

Charles Watson 지음

elsevier 2009년 11월 27일 출간

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Many hundreds of thousands suffer spinal cord injuries leading to loss of sensation and motor function in the body below the point of injury. Spinal cord research has made some significant strides towards new treatment methods, and is a focus of many laboratories worldwide. In addition, research on the involvement of the spinal cord in pain and the abilities of nervous tissue in the spine to regenerate has increasingly been on the forefront of biomedical research in the past years.The Spinal Cord, a collaboration with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, is the first comprehensive book on the anatomy of the mammalian spinal cord. Tens of thousands of articles and dozens of books are published on this subject each year, and a great deal of experimental work has been carried out on the rat spinal cord. Despite this, there is no comprehensive and authoratitive atlas of the mammalian spinal cord. Almost all of the fine details of spinal cord anatomy must be searched for in journal articles on particular subjects.This book addresses this need by providing both a comprehensive reference on the mammalian spinal cord and a comparative atlas of both rat and mouse spinal cords in one convenient source. The book is organized in two parts. Part 1 is a descriptive survey of the details of mammalian spinal cord anatomy, focusing on the rat. It includes 13 chapters with many illustrations from the leading experts in the field. Part 2 is a series of atlases of the rat and the mouse spinal cords. The rat spinal cord atlas includes drawings and photographs of transverse sections of each spinal cord level (2 levels per page - 34 pages), 6 pages of horizontal and sagittal sections, and a special section showing photographs of a variety of chemical markers (10 pages). The mouse spinal cord atlas will include drawings and photographs of transverse sections of each spinal cord level (2 levels per page ？？ total 18 pages).The text provides a deta

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THE SPINAL CORD - A CHRISTOPHER AND DANA REEVE FOUNDATION TEXT AND ATLASCharles Watson, George Paxinos, Gulgun Kayalioglu, and Claire Heise (editors)IntroductionPART AChapter 1The organization of the spinal cord (Charles Watson, Curtin University and Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University)Chapter 2Development of the spinal cord (Ken Ashwell, University of New South Wales)Chapter 3The vertebral column and the spinal meninges (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University)Chapter 4The spinal nerves (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University)Chapter 5Blood supply to the spinal cord (Oscar Scremin, UCLA)Chapter 6Cytoarchitecture of the spinal cord (Claire Heise, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and Gulgun Kialioglu, Ege University)Chapter 7Organization of somatic motoneuron groups in the spinal cord (Steve McHanwell, University of Newcastle UK and Charles Watson, Curtin University)Chapter 8Spinal autonomic preganglionic neurones ？？ the visceral efferent system of the spinal cord(Colin R. Anderson, , University of Melbourne, Janet R. Keast,, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital, and Elspeth M. McLachlan, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute)Chapter 9Central nervous system control of micturition (Gert Holstege, University of Groningen and Han Collewijn, Erasmus University Medical Center)Chapter 10Projections from the spinal cord to the brain (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University)Chapter 11Projections from the brain to the spinal cord (Charles Watson, Curtin University and Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia)Chapter 12The propriospinal system (Amanda Conta and Dennis Stelzner, SUNY Upstate Medical Unviersity)Chapter 13Spinal cord transmitter substances (Claire Heise, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute)Chapter 14Spinal cord injury: experimenta

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"This atlas provides an excellent, detailed map of the entire spinal cord of both rat and mouse. The photomicrographs are outstanding, the labelling is clear and the illustrations should serve as outstanding examples of what high quality staining and immunocytochemistry should look like. This information has not been available in any atlas of the CNS before, and will be an extremely useful resource for all neuroscientist interested in this part of the nervous system and a 'must-have' for spinal cord labs."Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California at San Francisco, USA ？？The Spinal Cord is an authoritative and detailed account of the development, organization and function of the spinal cord. Written by a series of experts, the book contains enlightening chapters that cover the anatomy and the architecture of the spinal cord in a clear and logical fashion. Attention to special topics, such as spinal cord injury and micturition, is unprecedented and unusually informative. The comprehensive atlas, along with the diagrams and list of references, will be of considerable use to the students of the nervous system, as well as the most senior of investigators. It is an excellent volume!?Moses V. Chao, Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA

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저자(글) Charles Watson