RT Book, Section
A1 Kandel, Eric R.
A1 Koester, John D.
A1 Mack, Sarah H.
A1 Siegelbaum, Steven A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1192998792
T1 Patterning the Nervous System
T2 Principles of Neural Science, 6e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259642234
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1192998792
RD 2024/04/18
AB A  VAST  ARRAY  OF  NEURONS  AND  GLIAL  CELLS  is  produced  during  development  of  the  vertebrate  nervous  system.  Different  types  of  neurons  develop  in  discrete  anatomical  positions,  acquire  varied  morphological  forms,  and  establish  connections  with  specific  populations  of  target  cells.  Their  diversity  is  far  greater  than  that  of  cells  in  any  other  organ  of  the  body.  The  retina,  for  example,  has  dozens  of  types  of  interneurons,  and  the  spinal  cord  has  more  than  a  hundred  types  of  motor  neurons.  At  present,  the  true  number  of  neuronal  types  in  the  mammalian  central  nervous  system  remains  unknown,  but  it  is  surely  more  than  a  thousand.  The  number  of  glial  types  is  even  less  clear;  unexpected  heterogeneity  is  being  discovered  in  what  was  thought,  until  recently,  to  be  rather  homogeneous  classes  of  astrocytes  and  oligodendrocytes.