Quantitative analysis of dendritic morphology of the alpha and delta retinal ganglion cells in the rat: A cell classification study

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-150

  Milošević, Nebojša T ^a   Ristanović, Dušan ^a   Jelinek, Herbert F ^b   Rajković, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circularity; Dendritic field area; Eccentricity; Fractal dimension; Stratification

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CYTOLOGY; ECCENTRICITY; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC FIELD; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

RATTUS;

EID: 67349215691     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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