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Published in final edited form as: Eur J Neurosci. 2011 Nov 18;34(11):1794–1806. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07882.x

Table 3.

Results of morphology analysis of 5-HT neurons

Soma Analysis				Dendrite Analysis
Subregion	Enclosed Volume	Mean Length (μm)	Total Area	Longest tip-to-tip length (μm)	Longest Segment (μm)	Number of trees	Number of Ends	Total Dendrite Length (μm)
vmDR (n=24)	1821 ± 191	41.4 ± 1.6	2286 ± 239	198.0 ± 24.8	179.0 ± 24.3	3.6 ± 0.2	5.5 ± 0.4	461.7 ± 52.0
lwDR (n=23)	2473 ± 272	46.7 ± 2.5	3160 ± 365	287.7 ± 25.5	242.5 ± 23.8	3.4 ± 0.2	8.4 ± 0.6	970.8 ± 111.9
Students t-test	t₄₅=1.97, P=0.055		t₄₅=2.02, P=0.0496			t₄₅=0.67, P=0.64	t₄₄=3.93, P=0.0003
Mann-Whitney Test		U=183, P=0.050		U=159, P=0.013	U=175, P=0.033			U=106, P=0.003

Values are average ± s.e.m