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    A quantitative analysis of the development of the pyramidal tract in the cervical spinal cord in the rat (1989)
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    Anatomy and embryology 179 (1989), S. 377-385 
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    ISSN: 1432-0568
    Keywords: Pyramidal tract ; Rat ; Development ; Axon loss ; Myelination
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary A quantitative electron microscopic analysis was undertaken of the development of the pyramidal tract, at the level of the third cervical spinal segment, in rats ranging in age from the day of birth to three months old. The axon number was calculated as the product of axon density, determined in a systematic random sample of electron micrographs, and tract area. During the first postnatal week the tract contains thin unmyelinated axons and growth cones. Growth cones are abundant in neonatal rats, but can still be observed occasionally at the end of the first postnatal week, indicating a continuous addition of pyramidal tract axons during the first postnatal week. Myelination starts around P10. By the end of the first postnatal month approximately 50% of the axons have already been myelinated. Myelination proceeds during further maturation, but in the three month old rat 28% of the axons are still unmyelinated. The total number of axons increases rapidly after birth up to 153 000 at the fourth postnatal day. Subsequently, the number of axons is reduced by nearly 50% to 79 000 in the adult rat. The axon loss is most prominent during the second postnatal week, when 32 000 axons are climinated, but continues for several weeks at a slower rate.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00305064
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    On the development of the pyramidal tract in the rat (1985)
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    Anatomy and embryology 172 (1985), S. 195-204 
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    ISSN: 1432-0568
    Keywords: Pyramidal tract ; Growth cones ; Electron microscopy ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary An electron microscopic study has been made of the tip of the growing pyramidal tract in the rat. This part of the developing bundle, designated as the growthzone, has been examined at the levels of the medulla oblongata and the third spinal segment at embryonic day 20 and on the day of birth, respectively. The tip of the pyramidal tract contains, apart from axons, numerous larger profiles. An analysis of serial sections revealed that these represent either growth cones or preterminal periodic varicosities. In the growth cones of the corticospinal axons three zones can be distinguished: a proximal “tubular”, an intermediate ”vesicular-reticular” and a distal “fine-granular” zone. As distinct from the classical descriptions the corticospinal growth cones end in a single or, less frequently, in two more or less parallel filopodia. None of the growth cones analyzed in this study showed multiple filopodia radiating from the terminal expansion as observed at the end of growing axons in tissue cultures and in developing spinal fibre tracts of nonmammalian vertebrates. As regards the varicosities, most of these structures are characterized by a light cytoplasmic density. Others, however, contain a denser cytoplasm, closely resembling that of the vesiculo-reticular part of growth cones.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00319602
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    On the development of the pyramidal tract in the rat (1986)
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    Anatomy and embryology 175 (1986), S. 101-110 
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    ISSN: 1432-0568
    Keywords: Corticospinal tract ; Development ; Anterograde tracing ; rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary An anterograde tracer study has been made of the developing corticospinal tract (CST) in the rat using wheat germ agglutinin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP). Analysis of normal Rager stained material revealed that corticospinal axons reach upper cervical spinal cord levels at the day of birth (PO). Postnatal rats ranging in age from one (P1) to fourteen (P14) days received multiple WGA-HRP injections into the cortex of their left hemisphere and were allowed to survive for 24 h. The first labeled CST fibers caudally extend into the third thoracic spinal cord segment at P1; into the eighth thoracic segment at P3; into the first or second lumbar segment at P7 and into the second to third sacral segment at Pg. Thus the outgrowth of the leading ‘pioneer’ fibers of the CST is completed at P9 but later developing axons are continuously added even beyond P9. Quantitative analysis of the amount of label along the length of the outgrowing CST revealed a characteristic pattern of labeling varying with age. The most striking features of that pattern are: (1) the formation of two standing peaks at the level of the cervical and lumbar enlargements respectively and (2) the transient presence of a smaller running peak which moves caudally with the front of the outgrowing bundle. The standing peaks are ascribed to the branching of the axon terminals at both intumescences, whereas the running peak probably arises by the accumulation of tracer within the growth cones at the tips of the outgrowing CST axons. Factors such as the number of axons, the varying axon diameters, the branching collaterals, the presence of varicosities, the transport rate of the tracer, the uptake of the tracer at the injection site, which possibly may affect the amount of label present in both the entire bundle and in the individual axons are discussed. Current research is focused upon an analysis of the relation between the site of injection within the cortex and the pattern of labeling of the CST. A delay of two days was found between the arrival of the CST axons at a particular spinal cord level and their outgrowth into the adjacent spinal gray. However, combined HRP and electronmicroscopic experiments are necessary to determine the factors behind the maturation of the CST as well as the maturation of the spinal gray.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00315460
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    Method for the measurement of susceptibility to decubitus ulcer formation (1989)
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    Medical & biological engineering & computing 27 (1989), S. 502-506 
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    ISSN: 1741-0444
    Keywords: Decubitus ulcers ; Diagnostic method ; Gerontology ; Pressure sores ; Prevention ; Susceptibility
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract A method for measuring the susceptibility of a patient to develop decubitus ulcers is described and initially evaluated. It is based on an indirect, noninvasive measurement of the transient regional blood flow response after a test pressure load which simulates the external stimulus for pressure-sore formation. This method was developed to determine the individual risk of a patient and to study the subfactors which contribute to the susceptibility. This would also offer the possibility of evaluating the effect of preventive treatment aimed at reducing the susceptibility. The method was found to discriminate between preselected elderly patients at risk on the one hand, and non-risk patients and healthy young adults on the other hand. No differences in blood flow responses were found between the non-risk elderly patients and the healthy young adults. This suggests that age per se is not a factor in the formation of pressure sores. In the risk group the recovery time after pressure relief was found to be three times as long as the duration of the pressure exercise. This indicates that the recovery time after pressure exercise may be as important as the period of pressure exercise in deducing the risk of developing decubitus ulcers.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02441469
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