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Dysplasias of Cerebellar Cortex

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Developmental Neuropathology

Abstract

Purkinje cells and the cells of cerebellar nuclei originate from precursors in the rhombic lip. They form much earlier than the granule cells, basket cells and stellate cells which derive from the division of cells in the superficial granular layer of the cortex (Altman 1969; Das and Nornes 1972; Altman and Bayer 1978). In the rat, deep nuclear neurons originate on the 13th–14th day of gestation, the Purkinje cells on the 15th–16th day, the interstitial nerve cells on the 15th–18th day, the marginal cells on the 16th day and the Golgi cells on the 17th-19th day. The earliest stock of granule cells, basket cells and stellate cells appears near birth (21st day) in the nodulus and flocculus. Other parts of the cortex acquire their granule cells postnatally, earlier in the vermis than in the hemispheres (Altman 1969). The subsequent cellular maturation of the cortex is reviewed in Chap. 1.

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Friede, R.L. (1989). Dysplasias of Cerebellar Cortex. In: Developmental Neuropathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73697-1_29

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