Voronoi analysis uncovers relationship between mosaics of normally placed and displaced amacrine cells in the thraira retina

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-77

  Costa, Luciano Da Fontoura ^a   Bonci, Daniela Maria Oliveira ^a   Saito, Cézar Akiyoshi ^b   Rocha, Fernando Allan De Farias ^a,b   Silveira, Luiz Carlos De Lima ^b   Ventura, Dora Fix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Distance based methods; Mosaics; Retina; Spatial correlation; Spatial order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; FISHES; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RETINA; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34247107955     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/NI:5:1:59     Document Type: Article

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