A Comparison Study of the Vertical Bias of Pyramidal Cells in the Hippocampus and Neocortex

• Published in: Developmental neuroscience Vol. 29; no. 1-2; pp. 193 - 200
• Main Authors: Casanova, Manuel F., Switala, Andrew E., Trippe, Juan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland S. Karger AG 01.01.2007
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Algorithms; Bias; Biological Evolution; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Fourier Analysis; Hippocampus - anatomy & histology; Hippocampus - growth & development; Humans; Image Cytometry - methods; Infant; Male; Middle Aged; Neocortex - anatomy & histology; Neocortex - growth & development; Neural Pathways - anatomy & histology; Neural Pathways - growth & development; Original Paper; Pyramidal Cells - cytology; Pyramidal Cells - physiology; Minicolumns; Neocortex; Hippocampus; Pyramidal cell arrays

In this study, we employed morphometric image analysis of the hippocampus proper and temporal lobe neocortex in postmortem tissue to determine vertical bias quantified as ΔΘ, angular dispersion, as well asan index of alignment of cellular elements relative to the radial plane. The radial alignment o...