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.
Table of Contents
1. Gene maps and related histogenetic domains in the expanded forebrain-Secondary prosencephalon, diencephalon, and midbrain2. Neuromeric heterochronic neurogenesis in the rat midbrain, diencephalon, and hypothalamus, as revealed by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry and autoradiographic reports
3. Tangential migration in the telencephalon
4. Peripheral autonomic nervous system
5. Primary afferent projections to the spinal cord
6. Spinal cord: Cyto- and chemoarchitecture
7. Superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord
8. Ascending and descending pathways of the spinal cord
9. Cerebellum and cerebellar connections
10. Locus coeruleus
11. Oromotor nuclei
12. Hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei
13. Circumventricular organs
14. Thalamus
15. Basal ganglia
16. Globus pallidus external and internal: Telencephalic origin in both rodents and primates
17. Amygdala: Structure and function
18. Organization of the forebrain cholinergic system and its interaction with glia
19. Hippocampal formation
20. Cingulate cortex
21. Insular cortex
22. Isocortex
23. Central autonomic system
24. Somatosensory system
25. Gustatory system
26. Olfactory system
27. Vestibular system
28. Auditory system
29. Visual system
30. Cerebral vascular system
31. Neuroglia
32. Postcodes for the brain and spinal cord: Rules based abbreviations for mammals and birds
Authors
George Paxinos NHMRC Senior Principal, NeuRA, Australia.George Paxinos has written 62 books on the brain of humans, monkeys, rodents and birds. His first atlas, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science (Assoc American Publishers, 1997) and The British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award (2016).
Mustafa Steve Kassem Senior Research Fellow, NeuRA, Sydney, Australia.Dr. Mustafa (Steve) Kassem is a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and The University of New South Wales. He has authored two brain atlases, Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain and Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain. He developed a modification of the Golgi Stain, the Ultra-Rapid-Golgi stain, permitting use on cleared and fixed tissue and has assembled one of the largest online collections of histological material, brainreservoir.neura.edu.au. With Paxinos, Dalton and Smith, he constructed a unified list of CNS terms for humans, monkeys, rodents and birds.
