Dendritic and axonal architecture of individual pyramidal neurons across layers of adult human neocortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4839-4853

  Mohan, Hemanth ^a   Verhoog, Matthijs B ^a   Doreswamy, Keerthi K ^a   Eyal, Guy ^b   Aardse, Romy ^a   Lodder, Brendan N ^a   Goriounova, Natalia A ^a   Asamoah, Boateng ^a   B Brakspear, A B Clementine ^a   Groot, Colin ^a   Van Der Sluis, Sophie ^c   Testa Silva, Guilherme ^a   Obermayer, Joshua ^a   Boudewijns, Zimbo S R M ^a   Narayanan, Rajeevan T ^a   Baayen, Johannes C ^c   Segev, Idan ^b   Mansvelder, Huibert D ^a   De Kock, Christiaan P J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MACACA; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AXON; C57BL MOUSE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; AXONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENDRITES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959449833     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv188     Document Type: Article

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