Potential Synaptic Connectivity of Different Neurons onto Pyramidal Cells in a 3D Reconstruction of the Rat Hippocampus

Most existing connectomic data and ongoing efforts focus either on individual synapses (e.g. with electron microscopy) or on regional connectivity (tract tracing). An individual pyramidal cell extends thousands of synapses over macroscopic distances (~cm). The contrasting requirements of high resolu...

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Main Authors: Deepak eRopireddy, Giorgio eAscoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fninf.2011.00005/full