Self-organizing Mechanism for Development of Space-filling Neuronal Dendrites
Figure 8
Two Distinctive Branching Patterns of Real Neurons
(A,B) Smooth and well-aligned type. A neuron in thalamic nuclei in monkey (A) and Purkinje cell at postnatal day 25 (B).
(C,D) Rugged and less-aligned type. A neuron of inferior olivary complex of monkey (C) and a remodeled class I da neuron at a pupal stage, which was visualized with ppk-GAL4 UAS-mCD8::GFP [49] (D). Images in (A and C) were taken from [50].
(E) Quantification of DOB in the generated patterns in our computer simulation. Data are presented as the means ± SD. A single asterisk indicates p < 0.01 (t-test), and double asterisks indicate p < 0.001 (t-test).