دورية أكاديمية
The morphological identity of insect dendrites.
| العنوان: | The morphological identity of insect dendrites. |
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| المؤلفون: | Hermann Cuntz, Friedrich Forstner, Juergen Haag, Alexander Borst |
| المصدر: | PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 4, Iss 12, p e1000251 (2008) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | Dendrite morphology, a neuron's anatomical fingerprint, is a neuroscientist's asset in unveiling organizational principles in the brain. However, the genetic program encoding the morphological identity of a single dendrite remains a mystery. In order to obtain a formal understanding of dendritic branching, we studied distributions of morphological parameters in a group of four individually identifiable neurons of the fly visual system. We found that parameters relating to the branching topology were similar throughout all cells. Only parameters relating to the area covered by the dendrite were cell type specific. With these areas, artificial dendrites were grown based on optimization principles minimizing the amount of wiring and maximizing synaptic democracy. Although the same branching rule was used for all cells, this yielded dendritic structures virtually indistinguishable from their real counterparts. From these principles we derived a fully-automated model-based neuron reconstruction procedure validating the artificial branching rule. In conclusion, we suggest that the genetic program implementing neuronal branching could be constant in all cells whereas the one responsible for the dendrite spanning field should be cell specific. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1553-734X 1553-7358 |
| Relation: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19112481/pdf/?tool=EBI; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734X; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000251 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/71230d13b813458789ff83df1817bc53 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.71230d13b813458789ff83df1817bc53 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1553734X 15537358 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000251 |