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Branching angles of pyramidal cell dendrites follow common geometrical design principles in different cortical areas
Year:2014

Research Areas
  • Artificial intelligence

Information
Abstract
Unraveling pyramidal cell structure is crucial to understanding cortical circuit computations. Although it is well known that pyramidal cell branching structure differs in the various cortical areas, the principles that determine the geometric shapes of these cells are not fully understood. Here we analyzed and modeled with a von Mises distribution the branching angles in 3D reconstructed basal dendritic arbors of hundreds of intracellularly injected cortical pyramidal cells in seven different cortical regions of the frontal, parietal, and occipital cortex of the mouse. We found that, despite the differences in the structure of the pyramidal cells in these distinct functional and cytoarchitectonic cortical areas, there are common design principles that govern the geometry of dendritic branching angles of pyramidal cells in all cortical areas.
International
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JCR
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Title
Scientific Reports
ISBN
2045-2322
Impact factor JCR
2,927
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2012
Volume
4
Journal number
5909
From page
1
To page
7
Month
SIN MES
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Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Computational Intelligence Group
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de tecnología Biomédica CTB
  • Departamento: Inteligencia Artificial