The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 54, 399-405,
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE HISTOPATHOLOGY OF NUTRITIONAL ENCEPHALOMALACIA OF CHICKS
Abner Wolf M.D.1 and
Alwin M. Pappenheimer M.D.1
1 From the Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York
Whatever may be the nature of the nutritive error or deficiency which in chicks is responsible for encephalomalacia, the immediate cause must be looked for in some agent or condition which impairs the capillary circulation of the brain. The essential lesion is an ischemic necrosis, followed, if the animal survive, by reparative organization of the dead tissue.
Submitted on May 22, 1931