Axon-dendrite polarity is likely instructed by extrinsic cues in the developing nervous system, though the mechanisms governing this process remain to be fully elucidated. In this issue of Neuron, Shelly et al. show that the axon guidance cue Semaphorin 3A can promote dendrite growth by inhibiting axon specification.

We show that, for monotone graph map f , all the ω-limit sets are finite whenever f has periodic point and for monotone dendrite map, any infinite ω-limit set does not contain periodic points. As a consequence, monotone graph and dendrite maps have no Li-Yorke pairs. However, we built a homeomorphism on a dendroid with a scrambled set having nonempty interior.

A complex array of genetic factors regulates neuronal dendrite morphology. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression represents a plausible mechanism to control pathways responsible for specific dendritic arbor shapes. By studying the Drosophila dendritic arborization (da) neurons, we discovered a role of the double-bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) family proteins in regulating dendrite arbor...

Proper growth of dendrites is critical to the formation of neuronal circuits, but the cellular machinery that directs the addition of membrane components to generate dendritic architecture remains obscure. Here, we demonstrate that post-Golgi membrane trafficking is polarized toward longer dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons in vitro and toward apical dendrites in vivo. Small Golgi outpo...

The spread of electrical activity in a dendritic tree is shaped, in part, by its morphology. Conversely, experimental evidence is growing that electrical and chemical activity can slowly shape the morphology of the dendrite. In this theoretical study, the dendritic spines are dynamic elements, with biophysical properties that change in response to patterns of electrical activity. Recent experim...

The nervous system is composed of a vast number of neurons with strikingly different dendritic morphology. The control of dendrite morphogenesis is an important and unresolved problem. Recently we found that the multiple dendritic (MD) (also known as dendritic arborization (DA)) neurons of the Drosophila peripheral nervous system serve as an excellent model system for a genetic dissection of de...

It is shown that for every numbers m1, m2 ∈ {3, . . . , ω} there is a strongly self-homeomorphic dendrite which is not pointwise self-homeomorphic. The set of all points at which the dendrite is pointwise self-homeomorphic is characterized. A general method of constructing a large family of dendrites with the same property is presented.

A continuum is an arboroid if it is hereditarily unicoherent and arcwise connected. A metric arboroid is a dendroid. A generalized dendrite is a locally connected arboroid. Among other things, we shall prove that a locally connected continuum X is a generalized dendrite if and only if X has the fixed point property for continuous, closed set-valued mappings.

Dendrites are extensions of the cell body of the neuron specialized for receiving and processing the vast majority of excitatory synaptic inputs. Dendrites exhibit enormously diverse forms. In many cases the shape of the dendritic arbor can be related to the mode of connectivity between neurons, with dendrites often ramifying in characteristic spatial domains where they receive specific inputs....

Dendrite development is an important and unsolved problem in neuroscience. The nervous system is composed of a vast number of neurons with strikingly different morphology. Neurons are highly polarized cells with distinct subcellular compartments, including one or multiple dendritic processes arising from the cell body, and a single, extended axon. Communications between neurons involve synapses...