Neurohistological Investigations on General Oxygen Deficiency of the Brain. 2. The Behavior of Astocytes After Acute and Subacute Death
Abstract
It is well known that in fresh brain softenings, cell clasmotodendrosis develops within the focus, whereas the astrocytes surrounding the focus maintain their structure. Figure 1 shows such a phenomenon in a softening due to an embolism that had occurred 5 hours before death. At first, such a finding does not seem very peculiar. The clasmatodendrosis might be explained as a consequence of a necrobiosis caused by the arrest of the circulation. Obviously, a prolonged duration of the anoxic state is the decisive factor for its development. The conservation of the cells beyond the focus would indicate that, premortally, these cells had not been subjected to such anoxia, and that no "postmortem" or "autolytic" in changes had yet developed. Strictly speaking, however, at the instant of the individual's death an anoxic condition had arisen also for them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1951
- Accession Number
- ADB203718
Entities
People
- Richard Lindenberg