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Pyramidal neurons are characterized by their distinct apical and basal dendritic trees and the pyramidal shape of their soma. They are found in several regions of the CNS and, although the reasons ...

A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, different parts of the same neuron—its upper and lower branches—adjust ...

It had been previously shown by other researchers that around 5% of CA1 pyramidal cells had axons shooting out of their apical dendrites. In other words, the upper regions of the extended cell.

Like the apical oblique dendrites, the tuft dendrites have a low density of NMDA receptors. Harnett's lab is now studying what happens in all of these different types of dendrites as mice perform ...

More information: Evidence That Dendritic Mitochondria Negatively Regulate Dendritic Branching in Pyramidal Neurons in the Neocortex, The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 May 2014, 34(20): 6938-6951 ...

The researchers studied the dendritic growth process in pyramidal neurons, which grow a single long "apical" dendrite and many shorter ones. To explore the role of Golgi outposts, ...

In contrast to the apical dendrite 32, however, the characteristic sag due to long current injection was not statistically different in the basal dendrites as compared to the soma (P = 0.1, n = 15 ...

These are apical dendrites of layer 5 excitatory neurons expressing calcium-sensitive fluorophore GCaMP6 in an awake brain. SCAPE can capture spontaneous dendritic firing across a 600 micron ...