This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

VIII. A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE CAPILLARIES IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS

STANLEY COBB

Arch Surg. 1929;18(4):1200-1209.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The capillary circulation of the brain has received little attention from investigators of cerebral physiology. Although Hill,¹ in 1895, pointed out the relationship between the blood flow through the brain and its metabolism, it is only in the last few years that any quantitative studies of the blood supply to nerve tissue have been made. A comparison between the capillary bed of the brain and that of other organs is significant. Krogh² measured the capillaries in muscle and made a plea for more quantitative studies of this sort, saying: "I believe that when taken up in earnest by competent anatomists, the field of quantitative anatomy will prove to be a rich and fruitful one. Many determinations of vascular and glandular surfaces are urgently needed as a basis for quantitative physiological work."

In a previous paper,³ I deduced from the published work of Wearn, Krogh and Craigie that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?