A cost-benefit analysis of neuronal morphology

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2320-2328

  Wen, Quan ^a,b,c   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a,c  

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

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPSE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AXONS; CEREBELLUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENDRITES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PURKINJE CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 47549092968     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00280.2007     Document Type: Article

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