The Segmental Morphometric Properties of the Horse Cervical Spinal Cord: A Study of Cadaver
Table 1
The body weights of the animals used in the study and some morphometric measurements for the brains, cervical spinal cords, and spinal cords after neutral formalin fixation.
Pony
Arabian
Belgium
TB I
TB II
Mean ± SE
Body weight (kg)
230
300
480
420
450
376 ± 47.6
Brain
Weight (g)
455
490
570
590
555
532 ± 25.5
Volume (cm3)
425
475
550
560
540
510 ± 25.9
SC
Weight (g)
207.2
186.3
305.9
267.0
281.6
249.6 ± 22.7
Length (cm)
142.9
156.2
178.4
175.6
182.8
167.2 ± 7.6
Volume (cm3)
204.7
180.3
297.1
270.9
283.7
247.3 ± 23.1
CSC
Weight (g)
87.8
77.3
130.8
116.6
123.4
107.2 ± 10.4
Length(cm)
51.4
56.1
65.2
66.0
67.5
61.2 ± 3.2
Volume (cm3)
77.4
73.5
111.7
104.1
110.8
95.5 ± 8.3
Ratio CSC/SC
Weight
42.4
41.5
42.8
43.7
43.8
42.8 ± 0.4
Length
36.0
35.9
36.5
37.6
36.9
36.6 ± 0.3
Volume
37.8
40.8
37.6
38.4
39.0
38.7 ± 0.6
RW
SC
0.090
0.062
0.064
0.064
0.063
0.068 ± 0.005
CSC
0.038
0.026
0.027
0.028
0.027
0.029 ± 0.002
Spinal cord (SC), cervical spinal cord (CSC), relative weight (RW), and Thoroughbred (TB). Volume data were obtained by application of Archimedes’ principle.
