Table 1.

Explored cells morphological statistics (200 cells in total). Cells taken from the NeuroMorpho database (Ascoli et al. 2007). Shown are the cell’s minimum (Min), maximum (Max), average (Ave) and standard deviation (St Dev) values

	S total Total surface area	S soma Soma surface area	S axon Axon surface area	S dendrite Dendrite surface area	D axon Axon diameter	D dendrite Average dendrite diameter
	μm2	μm2	μm2	μm2	μm	μm
Min	969	10	17020	292	1	0.09
Max	32457	2196	17020	31773	1	2.18
Ave	9099	488	17020	8613	1	0.78
St Dev	6004	425	0	6089	0	0.37

	Number of dendritic tips	R dend,total Dendrite to total surface area ratio	R soma,total Soma to total surface area ratio	Number of bifurcations	Average dendritic compartment length μm
Min	7	0.30	0.0005	13	8
Max	377	0.99	0.70	754	142
Ave	62	0.90	0.10	123	42
St Dev	44	0.14	0.14	88	26