Scaling properties of pyramidal neurons in mice neocortex

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 352-364

  Schierwagen, Andreas ^a   Alpár, Alán ^a   Gärtner, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendritic morphology; Dendrogram; Morphoelectrotonic transform; Pyramidal neurons; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DENDRITIC MORPHOLOGY; ELECTROANATOMY; MORPHOELECTROTONIC TRANSFORMS; PYRAMIDAL NEURONS;

NEURONS;

RAS PROTEIN;

ANATOMY; BRAIN; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN; RODENT; SCALE EFFECT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DENDRITE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUALITATIVE VALIDITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34248595479     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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