Power-law for axon diameters at branch point

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a   Stepanyants, Armen ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MICROSCOPY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 2542418071     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-4-18     Document Type: Article

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