title: [GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM INTERNAL STRUCTURE IN ADULT HUMAN].
abstract: The structure of the corpus callosum is a certain form of order of the nerve fibers, glial cells and blood microvessels and it is actually unexplored. We set the goal to understand the general constructive principle of the myeloarchitectonics of human corpus callosum. We used whole mounts of the corpus callosum (5 men and 5 women aged from 36 to 60 years) after their two-week fixation in 10% formalin solution. The next stage was to dissect plate sections of the corpus callosum brainstem in two mutually perpendicular planes. Some of them were subjected to impregnation in 1% osmium tetroxide solution, according to the method adopted in transmission electron microscopy. To prepare these plate sections of the corpus callosum for further study in the light microscope we used the method of plastination in epoxy resin. After complete polymerization plastinated mounts were used for making slices. For further research at high magnification light microscopy they were thinned up to 0.3 mm thickness and were subjected to coloration using 1% solution of methylene blue on 1% borax solution. They were studied using a binocular microscope МБС-9 and microscope "Konus" equipped with digital camera. It was found that the human corpus callosum consists of a number of transversely oriented bands of nerve fibers (commissural cords). Each of them consists of a tightly appressed stratified sections, fascicular rations, which are separated by interstitial layers. In turn, these interfascicular layers give short lateral spurs that divide fascicular rations into individual segments - subfascicular rations. Multiple cells containing interfascicular oligodendrocytes associated with individual subfascicular sets of nerve tracts are dispersed in the cluster order among myelinated nerve fibers of fascicular rations. Fundamentally important point is that the interstitial layers in the corpus callosum as a whole form a complex three-dimensional network structure which is subordinated to the nature of branching of blood microcirculation vessels of capillary type, being simultaneously the reticular system, performing extravascular circulation of fluid containing dissolved nutrients.
authors.affiliation: Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Boiagina
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000098:blood supply / Q000166:cytology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000648:ultrastructure