This book represents the most complete and authoritative description on the fine structure of the nervous system available in a single volume. Beginning with background material on the neuron, the book then examines specific portions of the nerve cell, and of the various supporting cells. Structure is first described in a general fashion, followed by detailed coverage of the fine structure of each component, with full discussion of how the structural features relate to their functions. Extensively revised and rewritten, this book will bring readers up to date with the many important developments that have taken place since publication of the previous edition. It includes over 130 electron micrographs and line drawings, many of which are new to this edition.
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From reviews of previous editions: "This is an account of the cells that constitute the nervous system . . . . a first-class monograph . . . . workers interested in the cellular structure of the nervous system will find it of great value." --British Medical Journal
"One can hardly conceive of a more experienced or better qualified combination of investigators to provide the equivalent of a Michelin Guide to the fine structure of the brain." Science
"This book is very strongly recommended as one of the most informative and stimulating works on the nervous system to appear in years." --Lancet
"An excellent textbook. . . .I enjoyed this book tremendously and recommend it enthusiastically to medical students, graduate students, houseofficers and scientists interested in the neurosciences. . . .This book belongs in all medical libraries as well as our personal libraries. I also consider this book an "ideal" welcome gift for the new residents beginning our neurology program." --The Quarterly Review of Biology
"As a series of beautiful pictures with good descriptive text, this book is hard to fault." --Cell Biology International Reports
"One can hardly conceive of a more experienced or better qualified combination of investigators to provide the equivalent of a Michelin Guide to the fine structure of the brain." Science
"This book is very strongly recommended as one of the most informative and stimulating works on the nervous system to appear in years." --Lancet
"An excellent textbook. . . .I enjoyed this book tremendously and recommend it enthusiastically to medical students, graduate students, houseofficers and scientists interested in the neurosciences. . . .This book belongs in all medical libraries as well as our personal libraries. I also consider this book an "ideal" welcome gift for the new residents beginning our neurology program." --The Quarterly Review of Biology
"As a series of beautiful pictures with good descriptive text, this book is hard to fault." --Cell Biology International Reports
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Alan Peters, Waterhouse Professor of Anatomy; Chairman, Department of Anatomy, Boston University School of Medicine. Sanford L. Palay, Bullard Professor of Neuroanatomy, Emeritus Harvard Medical School. Henry deF. Webster, Chief, Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
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Buy it for the images,
This review is from: Fine Structure of the Nervous System: Neurons and Their Supporting Cells (Hardcover)
This is an older book and will probably be slightly behind the times with the biology, but the pictures (TEM) are all damn fine quality. The images will never become out of date.
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Anyone who has studied the early history of cytology cannot fail to be impressed by the slow development of the concept of the nerve cell. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hypolemmal cisterna, puncta adhaerentia, paranodal cytoplasm, punctum adhaerens, axonal cap, paranodal pockets, fibrillogranular aggregates, plasma membrane bounding, satellite cell processes, intraperiod gap, supraependymal cells, degenerating boutons, symmetric synaptic junctions, choroidal cells, intercellular plaque, perikaryal surface, internal mesaxon, pial cells, dimeric particles, orthogonal assemblies, initial axon segment, external mesaxon, microscopic literature, nodal axon, agranular reticulum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rio Hortega, Max Schultze, Adult Peripheral Nerve, Freeze-Fractured Myelin Sheaths, Trigeminal Ganglion Cell, Van Horn New!
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Anyone who has studied the early history of cytology cannot fail to be impressed by the slow development of the concept of the nerve cell. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hypolemmal cisterna, puncta adhaerentia, paranodal cytoplasm, punctum adhaerens, axonal cap, paranodal pockets, fibrillogranular aggregates, plasma membrane bounding, satellite cell processes, intraperiod gap, supraependymal cells, degenerating boutons, symmetric synaptic junctions, choroidal cells, intercellular plaque, perikaryal surface, internal mesaxon, pial cells, dimeric particles, orthogonal assemblies, initial axon segment, external mesaxon, microscopic literature, nodal axon, agranular reticulum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rio Hortega, Max Schultze, Adult Peripheral Nerve, Freeze-Fractured Myelin Sheaths, Trigeminal Ganglion Cell, Van Horn New!
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- Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods by Heimer on 4 pages
- Handbook of Physiology by American Physiological Society in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Development in the Nervous System (British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia) by D. R. Garrod in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology by D. Noble in Back Matter
- Membrane Morphology of the Vertebrate Nervous System by Author Unknown in Back Matter
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- Neuroscience with CDROM by Dale Purves on page 28, page 773, and Back Matter
- Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior by Eric R. Kandel on page 55, and Back Matter
- International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 73 by Ronald J. Bradley on page 267
- Brain Maps, Third Edition: Structure of the Rat Brain (Vol 3) by Larry Swanson in Back Matter
- Glial Neuronal Signaling (Falk Symposium) by Glenn I. Hatton on page 18
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