Front Cover

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Growth and Maturation of the Brain

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Copyright Page

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List of Contributors

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Preface

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Contents

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Chapter 1. Events in the developing nervous system

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Chapter 2. The evolutionary aspect of the integrative function of the cortex and subcortex of the brain

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Chapter 3. The cerebral cortex of the premature infant of the 8th month

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Chapter 4. Some correlations between the appearance of human fetal reflexes and the development of the nervous system

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Chapter 5. Postnatal changes in glia/neuron index with a comparison of methods of cell enumeration in the white rat

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Chapter 6. Quantitative analysis of neuronal parameters in the maturing cerebral cortex

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Chapter 7. Electron microscopy of immature human and feline neocortex

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Chapter 8. Comparative ontogenesis of structure-function relations in cerebral and cerebellar cortex

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Chapter 9. Critères de maturation des systèmes affèrents corticaux

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Chapter 10. Brain Mitochondria

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Chapter 11. Molecular evolution of lactate dehydrogenase in the developing nervous tissue

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Chapter 12. Enzymatic mechanism of the protein biosynthesis in the developing nervous system

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Author index

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Subject index

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