Morphologic evidence for spatially clustered spines in apical dendrites of monkey neocortical pyramidal cells

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2888-2902

  Yadav, Aniruddha ^a   Gao, Yuan Z ^a   Rodriguez, Alfredo ^a   Dickstein, Dara L ^a   Wearne, Susan L ^a,d   Luebke, Jennifer I ^b   Hof, Patrick R ^a   Weaver, Christina M ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dendritic spines; Image analysis; Morphology; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENDRITIC SPINE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENDRITIC SPINES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOCORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84863599751     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23070     Document Type: Article

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