One rule to grow them all: A general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Cuntz, Hermann ^a,b   Forstner, Friedrich ^b   Borst, Alexander ^b   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

BALANCING FACTOR; DENDRITIC BRANCHING; DENDRITICS; DENSITY PROFILE; GENERAL THEORY; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; ONE-RULE; SINGLE NEURON; SINGLE PARAMETER;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; PROCESS MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY VALIDATION;

EID: 78049446478     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000877     Document Type: Article

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