The Spinal Cord

The Spinal Cord, a collaboration with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, is the first comprehensive book on the anatomy of the mammalian spinal cord. While thousands of journal articles and dozens of books are published on this subject each year, there is no comprehensive and authorititive atlas of the mammalian spinal cord. Almost all of the fine details of spinal cord anatomy must be searched for in journal articles on particular subjects. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 is a descriptive survey of the details of mammalian spinal cord anatomy with many illustrations from the leading experts in the field, focusing on the rat. Part 2 is a series of atlases of the rat and the mouse spinal cord. The atlasses include drawings and photographs of 34 transverse sections each for rat and mouse, as well as photographs of a variety of chemical markers. CONTENTS Introduction; ; PART A; ; Chapter 1; The organization of the spinal cord (Charles Watson, Curtin University and Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University); ; Chapter 2; Development of the spinal cord (Ken Ashwell, University of New South Wales); ; Chapter 3; The vertebral column and the spinal meninges (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University); ; Chapter 4; The spinal nerves (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University); ; Chapter 5; Blood supply to the spinal cord (Oscar Scremin, UCLA); ; Chapter 6; Cytoarchitecture of the spinal cord (Claire Heise, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and Gulgun Kialioglu, Ege University); ; Chapter 7; Organization of somatic motoneuron groups in the spinal cord (Steve McHanwell, University of Newcastle UK and Charles Watson, Curtin University); ; Chapter 8; Spinal autonomic preganglionic neurones - the visceral efferent system of the spinal cord; (Colin R. Anderson, , University of Melbourne, Janet R. Keast,, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital, and Elspeth M. McLachlan, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute); ; Chapter 9; Central nervous system control of micturition (Gert Holstege, University of Groningen and Han Collewijn, Erasmus University Medical Center); ; Chapter 10; Projections from the spinal cord to the brain (Gulgun Kayalioglu, Ege University); ; Chapter 11; Projections from the brain to the spinal cord (Charles Watson, Curtin University and Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia); ; Chapter 12; The propriospinal system (Amanda Conta and Dennis Stelzner, SUNY Upstate Medical Unviersity); ; Chapter 13; Spinal cord transmitter substances (Claire Heise, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute); ; Chapter 14; Spinal cord injury: experimental animal models and relation to human therapy. ۬ (Stephen Hodgetts, Giles Plant, and Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia); ; PART B; ; An atlas of the mouse spinal cord; (Watson, Paxinos, Heise, and Kayalioglu); An atlas of the rat spinal cord; (Watson, Paxinos, Heise, and Kayalioglu)