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. 2015 Feb 15;8:10. doi: 10.1186/s13041-015-0099-9

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Ratio of excitatory to inhibitory synapses in the cell body versus dendritic compartments of hippocampal and cortical neurons. The ratio of vGLUT1 to vGAT immunopositive synaptic puncta in the cell body and dendritic compartments of hippocampal (A) and cortical (B) neurons is expressed as the log10 (# of vGLUT1 puncta/# of vGAT puncta). The number of inhibitory synapses is higher than that of excitatory synapses in the cell body compartment of hippocampal neurons. In contrast, the number of excitatory synapses is higher than that of inhibitory synapses in the dendritic compartment of hippocampal neurons. In both the dendritic and cell body compartments of cortical neurons, the number inhibitory and excitatory synapses were similar.