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View SchemaCharacterizing neuromorphologic alterations with additive shape functionals
| Authors | M. S. Barbosa, L. da F. Costa, E. S. Bernardes, G. Ramakers, J. van Pelt |
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| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0408004 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0408004 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjb/e2004-00035-y |
| Journal | Eur. Phys. J. B 37, 109 115 (2004) |
Abstract
The complexity of a neuronal cell shape is known to be related to its function. Specifically, among other indicators, a decreased complexity in the dendritic trees of cortical pyramidal neurons has been associated with mental retardation. In this paper we develop a procedure to address the characterization of morphological changes induced in cultured neurons by over-expressing a gene involved in mental retardation. Measures associated with the multiscale connectivity, an additive image functional, are found to give a reasonable separation criterion between two categories of cells. One category consists of a control group and two transfected groups of neurons, and the other, a class of cat ganglionary cells. The reported framework also identified a trend towards lower complexity in one of the transfected groups. Such results establish the suggested measures as an effective descriptors of cell shape.
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