Morphological development of thick-tufted layer V pyramidal cells in the rat somatosensory cortex

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Romand, Sandrine ^a   Wang, Yun ^b,c   Toledo Rodriguez, Maria ^d   Markram, Henry ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axons; Boutons; Dendrites; Development; Morphology; Neocortex; Pyramidal cells; Spines

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL COUNT; CELL ELONGATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84856844554     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2011.00005     Document Type: Article

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