Long distance projections of cortical pyramidal neurons

Multiscale Fractal Analysis of Cortical Pyramidal Neurons

The present study used 3D data on neuronal morphology images to quantitatively characterize the phenotype of transgenic neurons. We calculated the multiscale fractal dimension (MFD) of reconstructed neuronal cells. It was shown that in a specific mouse mutant changes in the complexity of neuronal morphology correlate with changes in the MFD of dendrites of pyramidal neurons. Neurons in the muta...

Nrg1 reverse signaling in cortical pyramidal neurons.

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Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections

Cluster Analysis of Cortical Pyramidal Neurons Using SOM

A cluster analysis using SOM has been performed on morphological data derived from pyramidal neurons of the somatosensory cortex of normal and transgenic mice.

Dendritic size of pyramidal neurons differs among mouse cortical regions.

Neocortical circuits share anatomical and physiological similarities among different species and cortical areas. Because of this, a 'canonical' cortical microcircuit could form the functional unit of the neocortex and perform the same basic computation on different types of inputs. However, variations in pyramidal cell structure between different primate cortical areas exist, indicating that di...