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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 29.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2013 May 7;246:230–242. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.04.061

Figure 1. Morphology of principal neurons in the LAT and BA.

Figure 1

Neurons of the LAT and BA were reconstructed after Golgi-Cox staining. A) Boundaries of LAT and BA were defined by comparison to a brain atlas (left; in this section by comparison to −3.30 mm from bregma (Paxinos and Watson, 2001) and Nissl-stained sections (middle). The outline of the LAT and BA are drawn over the Golgi-stained section for comparison (right). B) Principal neurons of the LAT (left) and BA (right) that were reconstructed were spiny, with identifiable primary dendrites. C) Dendritic length of principal neurons in the LAT and BA across distances from the soma (Sholl analysis, left) and total dendritic length (right) were similar. D) The spine number on principal neurons in the LAT and BA were similar across distance (Sholl analysis, left) and in total spine number (right). E) The average spine density of principal neurons in the LAT and BA was similar. F) The number of intersections of neurons in Sholl analysis was similar between LAT and BA principal neurons. Here, and in all figures, LAT= lateral nucleus, BA = basal nucleus, BLA = lateral + basal nuclei.