Collection: Brain of the birds (Aves)

Species: Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758    Aves

Description: Frontal (transverse) celloidin section through a telencephalic hemisphere of the common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs L. impregnated with silver salts by the Golgi method. Dorsal region of the pallium (HD – hyperstriatum dorsocellulare). The section shows a separate short-axon, spineless neuron. This is one of the most highly differentiated neurons in the CNS structures of vertebrates, which belongs to highly specialized idiodendritic cells (by classification of E. Ramon-Molinera). In general, these neurons are found in the pallial regions of the telencephalon in Passeriformes (especially in Corvidae) and mammals (in Carnivora and primates).

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

Stacks: 

Series of optical sections at different focal levels