Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Differential dynamics of cortical neuron dendritic trees revealed by long-term in vivo imaging in neonates

  • Shingo Nakazawa,
  • Hidenobu Mizuno,
  • Takuji Iwasato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05563-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Layer 4 stellate neurons in barrel cortex have a characteristic dendritic pattern. Here, the authors conduct long-term imaging from postnatal day 3–6 to show that an orientation bias is established through dendritic tree turnover and selective elaboration, which may be induced by biased thalamocortical inputs.