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Article: Area-Specific Features of Pyramidal Neurons-a Comparative Study in Mouse and Rhesus Monkey.

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Gilman JP; Medalla M; Luebke JI
Cereb. Cortex, 2016


Table 1

Morphological properties of L3 pyramidal neurons

msV1 msFC mkV1 mkLPFC ms versus ms
FC versus V1
mk versus mk
LPFC versus V1
ms versus mk
FC versus LPFC
ms versus mk
V1 versus V1
Soma-pia distance (µm) 302 ± 19 331 ± 13 268 ± 18 450 ± 60 ns P < 0.05 P < 0.05 ns
Soma diameter (µm)
 Height 14.9 ± 0.4 15.8 ± 0.5 12.7 ± 0.5 17.3 ± 0.9 ns P < 0.001 ns P < 0.001
 Width 9.6 ± 0.4 12.2 ± 0.7 10.5 ± 0.4 13.2 ± 0.7 P < 0.01 P < 0.01 ns ns
Vertical extent (µm)
 Total 430 ± 23 432 ± 20 371 ± 13 615 ± 73 ns P < 0.05 ns ns
 Apical 302 ± 19 331 ± 13 268 ± 18 4450 ± 60 ns P < 0.05 P < 0.05 ns
 Basal 226 ± 12 210 ± 6 147 ± 11 273 ± 31 ns P < 0.01 P < 0.05 P < 0.001
Horizontal extent (µm)
 Apical 189 ± 24 256 ± 18 139 ± 15 334 ± 55 P < 0.05 P < 0.05 ns ns
 Basal 207 ± 8 246 ± 17 194 ± 14 310 ± 36 P < 0.05 P < 0.05 ns ns
Dendritic length (µm)
 Total 4291 ± 261 5034 ± 241 3188 ± 226 7631 ± 919 ns P < 0.01 P < 0.01 ns
 Apical 1707 ± 122 2535 ± 184 1530 ± 114 4303 ± 500 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.01 ns
 Basal 2583 ± 208 2499 ± 159 1659 ± 138 3328 ± 463 ns P < 0.001 ns ns
Apical length (µm)
 Trunk 156 ± 18 160 ± 35 150 ± 23 261 ± 27 ns P < 0.01 ns ns
 Obl 703 ± 61 972 ± 109 793 ± 80 2482 ± 379 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.001 ns
 Tuft 849 ± 117 1347 ± 209 643 ± 85 2732 ± 201 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.001 ns
# Branch points
 Total 44.0 ± 3.5 49.3 ± 2.9 32.0 ± 2.6 51.3 ± 5.6 ns P < 0.01 ns ns
 Apical 17.4 ± 1.7 24.8 ± 1.8 15.3 ± 1.2 28.1 ± 2.6 ns P < 0.01 ns ns
 Basal 26.6 ± 2.5 24.5 ± 2.1 16.8 ± 1.8 23.2 ± 3.5 ns ns ns P < 0.05
Dendritic vol (µm3)
 Total 2920 ± 338 4797 ± 634 1694 ± 298 6246 ± 833 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.01 ns
 Apical 980 ± 110 2604 ± 404 794 ± 123 3015 ± 465 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.01 ns
 Basal 1940 ± 257 2193 ± 267 944 ± 178 3230 ± 395 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.05 ns
Dendritic diameters (µm)
 Trunk 1.26 ± 0.09 1.71 ± 0.27 1.46 ± 0.17 1.92 ± 0.20 ns P < 0.05 ns ns
 Obl 0.67 ± 0.03 0.93 ± 0.09 0.79 ± 0.10 0.72 ± 0.08 ns ns ns ns
 Tuft 0.76 ± 0.06 1.27 ± 0.18 0.88 ± 0.11 0.79 ± 0.08 P < 0.01 ns P < 0.01 ns
 Basal 0.77 ± 0.04 0.94 ± 0.11 1.00 ± 0.17 0.78 ± 0.09 ns ns ns ns
Spine number
 Total 4377 ± 302 4819 ± 534 1884 ± 216 10018 ± 2062 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.01 P < 0.01
 Apical 1862 ± 121 2334 ± 262 855 ± 92 6286 ± 1332 ns P < 0.001 P < 0.01 ns
 Basal 2515 ± 303 2484 ± 340 1030 ± 157 3732 ± 744 ns P < 0.001 ns ns
Spine density (sp/µm)
 Total 0.99 ± 0.08 0.95 ± 0.07 0.60 ± 0.03 1.12 ± 0.18 ns P < 0.001 ns P < 0.05
 Apical 0.97 ± 0.07 0.94 ± 0.07 0.57 ± 0.04 1.14 ± 0.18 ns P < 0.001 ns P < 0.05
 Basal 1.02 ± 0.10 0.96 ± 0.09 0.62 ± 0.03 1.10 ± 0.16 ns P < 0.001 ns P < 0.05

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