
The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates
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Description
Key Features
- 161 thoroughly revised coronal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates spaced at 120 µm intervals
- 19 thoroughly revised sagittal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates
- 27 thoroughly revised horizontal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates
- Photographic plates printed from high resolution digital images in color
- Diagrams of all spinal cord segments
- The most accurate and virtually universally used stereotaxic coordinate system
- Neuromeric segments delineated in sagittal sections
- A 'mini-atlas' of 14 diagrams to assist beginning students of neuroanatomy
- Over 1000 structures identified
- Electronic diagrams available to purchasers of this book via a companion web site (http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123919496/)
Readership
Table of Contents
Dedication
Key features of the Seventh Edition
Reproduction of figures by users of the Atlas
How to cite this book
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Methods
Stereotaxic surgery
Histological methods
Stereotaxic Reference System
Drawings of coronal brain sections
Drawings of sagittal brain sections
Drawings of horizontal brain sections
Accuracy of the stereotaxic coordinates
Nomenclature and the construction of abbreviations
The basis of delineation of structures
Prosencephalon
Mesencephalon (Midbrain)
Rhombencephalon (Hindbrain)
Spinal Cord
Mini-atlas of the rat brain
References
List of Structures
Index of Abbreviations
Figures
Product details
- No. of pages: 472
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: October 24, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780124157521
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123919496
About the Authors
George Paxinos

Affiliations and Expertise
Charles Watson
Affiliations and Expertise
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