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- English
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The Rat Nervous System
About this book
The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience who are working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new edition provides thorough updates throughout, including the latest information in an active field of research on the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system and their unique functions. Readers will learn how to formulate sound hypotheses as well as carry out accurate research models.
- Adopts standard nomenclature aligned with the Atlas of the Human Brain
- Contains full color throughout
- Provides information that is applicable to other species, including the mouse and human, lending itself to many researchers
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Table of contents
- Title of Book
- Chapter 1. Gene maps and related histogenetic domains in the expanded forebrain (secondary prosencephalon/hypothalamus, diencephalon, and midbrain)
- Chapter 2. Neuromeric heterochronic neurogenesis in the rat midbrain, diencephalon, and hypothalamus, as revealed by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry and autoradiographic reports
- Chapter 3. Tangential migration in the telencephalon
- Chapter 4. Peripheral autonomic nervous system
- Chapter 5. Primary afferent projections to the spinal cord
- Chapter 6. Spinal cord: Cyto- and chemoarchitecture
- Chapter 7. Superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord
- Chapter 8. Ascending and descending pathways of the spinal cord
- Chapter 9. Cerebellum and cerebellar connections
- Chapter 10. Locus coeruleus
- Chapter 11. Oromotor nuclei
- Chapter 12. Hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei
- Chapter 13. Circumventricular organs
- Chapter 14. Thalamus
- Chapter 15. Basal ganglia
- Chapter 16. Globus pallidus external and internal: Telencephalic origin in both rodents and primates
- Chapter 17. Amygdala: Structure and function
- Chapter 18. Organization of the forebrain cholinergic system and its glial interactions
- Chapter 19. Hippocampal formation
- Chapter 20. Cingulate cortex
- Chapter 21. Insular cortex
- Chapter 22. Isocortex
- Chapter 23. Central autonomic system
- Chapter 24. Somatosensory system
- Chapter 25. Gustatory system
- Chapter 26. Olfactory system
- Chapter 27. Vestibular system
- Chapter 28. Auditory system
- Chapter 29. Visual system
- Chapter 30. Cerebral vascular system
- Chapter 31. Neuroglia
- Chapter 32. Postcodes for the brain and spinal cord: Rules based abbreviations for mammals and birds
- Index
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