Optimal axonal and dendritic branching strategies during the development of neural circuitry

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Tsigankov, Dmitry ^a,b   Koulakov, Alexei ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal and dendritic branching; Computer simulation; Retinocollicular projections; Synaptotropic; Topographic mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890877942     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.04.018.2009     Document Type: Article

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