Bøger af Joseph Altman

The study of the development of the spinal cord has a relatively long history. They reported that the cellular central mass of the spinal cord develops before its fibrous envelope, deducing from this that the fibers of the white matter of the embryonic spinal cord were outgrowths of cells in the gray matter.

The aim of this investigation is threefold: (a) to determine the time of origin of neurons of the rat cranial nerve ganglia; In the present study we determined the birth dates of neurons of the trigeminal, facial, vestibular, "glosso pharyngeal, and vagal ganglia of the rat.