Quantitative Morphometry of Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells: Differences between Anatomical Classes and Reconstructing Laboratories

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 473, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-193

  Scorcioni, Ruggero ^a   Lazarewicz, Maciej T ^b   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching; Comparative analysis; Computational models; Dendritic structure; Hippocampus; Pyramidal cells; Three dimensional reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITIC CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LABORATORY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LABORATORIES; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2342528455     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20067     Document Type: Article

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