The dendritic density field of a cortical pyramidal cell
- Much is known about the computation in individual neurons in the cortical column. Also, the selective connectivity between many cortical neuron types has been studied in great detail. However, due to the complexity of this microcircuitry its functional role within the cortical column remains a mystery. Some of the wiring behavior between neurons can be interpreted directly from their particular dendritic and axonal shapes. Here, I describe the dendritic density field (DDF) as one key element that remains to be better understood. I sketch an approach to relate DDFs in general to their underlying potential connectivity schemes. As an example, I show how the characteristic shape of a cortical pyramidal cell appears as a direct consequence of connecting inputs arranged in two separate parallel layers.
| Author: | Hermann CuntzORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-240660 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2012.00002 |
| ISSN: | 1662-5129 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22347169 |
| Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in neuroanatomy |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publication: | Lausanne |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2012/03/09 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2012/02/01 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/03/09 |
| Tag: | Ramón y Cajal; axon; dendrite; modeling; pyramidal cell |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| Note: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 310987865 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
