Dendritic size of pyramidal neurons differs among mouse cortical regions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 990-1001

  Benavides Piccione, Ruth ^a,b   Hamzei Sichani, Farid ^b   Ballesteros Yáñez, Inmaculada ^a   Defelipe, Javier ^a   Yuste, Rafael ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit; Cluster analysis; Lucifer Yellow; PCA

Indexed keywords

LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLIND MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MICE; NERVE NET; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 33745225049     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj041     Document Type: Article

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