Collection: Brain of the birds (Aves)

Species: Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758    Aves

Description: Frontal (transverse) celloidin section through a telencephalic hemisphere of a carrion crow impregnated with silver salts by the Golgi method. Region of the pallium. The section shows a separately stained nerve cell with a system of dendritic (d) and axonal (ax) arborizations. Note a rich network of axonal collaterals (ac) and the lack of spines on the dendrites. According to the classification of E. Ramon-Molinera, these neurons belong to a group of highly specialized, idiodendritic cells, which shows a high level of neuronal organization of the brain in Corvidae.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, cerebral brain or its part

Methods: Neurohistology - Golgi method of silver impregnation of nervous elements

Publications: Обухов Д.К. Современные представления о структурно-функциональной организации конечного мозга птиц // В сб.: Морфогенез и реактивная перестройка нервной системы. Труды СПб общества естествоиспытателей, 1996, том. 76, вып. 5, стр.113-132.

Microscope: Leica DM 6000 with DFC 5000 EC3 camera