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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Neurobiol. 2011 Dec;71(12):1297–1309. doi: 10.1002/dneu.20900

Fig 1. Schematic diagram illustrating four patterns of dendritic development.

Fig 1

A. Targeted ramification. RGCs directly stratify their dendrites into laminar-restricted pattern during initial dendritic ramification with little further refinement. B. Dendritic elimination. RGCs initially ramify their dendrites diffusely in the IPL and then restrict their dendrites into laminar-restricted pattern by dendritic elimination. C. Continuous dendritic growth. RGCs form their laminar-restricted dendritic plexus stepwise by continuous dendritic growth after the initial dendritic ramification. D. Dendritic redistribution. RGCs form their laminar-restricted dendritic plexus in one stratum of the IPL during the initial dendritic ramification and then redistributed the dendritic plexus into another stratum during dendritic refinement by simultaneous and selective dendritic growth and elimination.