Statistical determinants of dendritic morphology in hippocampal pyramidal neurons: A hidden Markov model

Hippocampus

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 166-183

  Samsonovich, Alexei V ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; CA3; Interstitial; Morphometry; Oblique; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS;

EID: 16344392542     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20041     Document Type: Article

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