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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2017

Basal tree complexity shapes functional pathways in the prefrontal cortex.

Athanasia Papoutsi, George Kastellakis, Panayiota Poirazi

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Athanasia PapoutsiInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; and.
George KastellakisInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; and.
Panayiota PoiraziInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; and poirazi@imbb.forth.gr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the morphology of basal dendritic trees in cortical pyramidal neurons varies, the functional implications of this diversity are just starting to emerge. In layer 5 pyramidal neurons of the prefrontal cortex, for example, increased basal tree complexity determines the recruitment of these neurons into functional circuits. Here, we use a modeling approach to investigate whether and how the morphology of the basal tree mediates the functional output of neurons. We implemented 57 basal tree morphologies of layer 5 prefrontal pyramidal neurons of the rat and identified morphological types that were characterized by different response features, forming distinct functional types. These types were robust to a wide range of manipulations (distribution of active ionic mechanisms, NMDA conductance, somatic and apical tree morphology, or the number of activated synapses) and supported different temporal coding schemes at both the single neuron and the microcircuit level. We predict that the basal tree morphological diversity among neurons of the same class mediates their segregation into distinct functional pathways. Extension of our approach/findings to other cortical areas and/or layers or under pathological conditions may provide a generalized role of the basal trees for neuronal function.

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Models, NeurologicalAnimalsDendritesN-MethylaspartatePrefrontal CortexPyramidal CellsRatsSynaptic TransmissionN-Methylaspartatecomputational modeldendritic nonlinearitiestemporal summationtypes of neurons

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PMID28701532
PMCPMC5626899

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