A scaling law derived from optimal dendritic wiring

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 11014-11018

  Cuntz, Hermann ^a,b,c   Mathy, Alexandre ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branching; Computational neuroscience; Dendrite; Minimum spanning tree; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITE; MINIMUM SPANNING TREE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; OLFACTORY BULB; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALING LAW; SYNAPSE; THEORY;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84863571443     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200430109     Document Type: Article

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