On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:33:28 -0800 (PST), "Peter H."
<pjwholm from yahoo.es> wrote:
>On 24 feb, 00:15, Kalman Rubinson <k... from earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >*2: See Macaca Mulatta, Nissl, horizontal, histo, whole-brain,
>> >section 0205 hemisphere at bottom inhttp://brainmaps.org>>>> I do not see what you are describing. This section looks perfectly
>> normal to me and comparable to standard descriptions.
>>>> Kal
>>Wish there were coordinates I could point to, but being things as they
>are I will just have to describe the situation:
>> Magnify section 0205 until the scale bar measures at most 184
>micrometers. Below the Vermis on this section, the posterior margin of
>the molecular layer of the bottom hemisphere forms a "U" leaning to
>the right, the right arm of which points to the plexus choroideus on
>the top right of it and is fatter than the left one. The inside of
>this U, which represents the outside of the molecular layer, you will
>see lined with Purkinje cells. And on the right side of this right arm
>you will see fairly large cells (diam. ca. 23 microns), which due to
>their size I interpret to be neurons and not Glia, nearly touching the
>molecular layer.
>>Alternatively, in section 0254 of this series you can see what
>doubtlessly are the deep nuclei approaching the molecular layer on its
>inside to a distance of about 400 microns.
I do see those large cells in both 205 and 254 but these seem to be in
the white matter adjacent to the granular layer while the normal
pattern of the molecular/Purkinje/granular layers remains intact and
external.
Kal
