Abstract
The development of the human gracilis nucleus was studied on serial sections of the brain of 9 fetuses and neonates at 18-40 weeks of gestation, a two-month-old infant and a 63-year-old adult using a microscope with a drawing tube and an image-analyzing computer system. A morphometric evaluation revealed that the human gracilis nucleus, whose neurons were distinguished from glia from 18 weeks of gestation onward, showed a gradual development in terms of the columnar volume, neuronal size and number, and revealed two kinds of phenomenon: a normal process which occur in the development of the fetus, viz. natural cell death (also called apoptosis), and a phenomenon due to yet unknown causes regarding a discrepancy between the number of neurons and the neuropil index.
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