Table 2.

Measures of dendritic size and complexity of layer 4 stellate neurons in control and enucleated ferrets at P30 (mean ± SEM)

	Control	Enucleated	p
Span of apical dendrite (μm)	126.18 ± 5.21	143.00 ± 11.16	0.184
Span of basal dendrites (μm)	143.31 ± 2.48	163.10 ± 6.26	0.007*
Ratio AD/BD	0.88 ± 0.03	0.88 ± 0.07	0.981
% soma–pia distance by AD	18.62 ± 1.05	19.57 ± 1.94	0.639
Number of basal dendrites	3.75 ± 0.16	3.65 ± 0.20	0.697
Total length AD (μm)	432.14 ± 43.50	616.19 ± 102.28	0.111
Total length BD (μm)	2057.34 ± 95.91	2449.30 ± 187.60	0.073
Total length AD + BD	2453.48 ± 112.09	3003.87 ± 190.21	0.010**
Branch points AD	5.42 ± 0.66	7.17 ± 1.34	0.196
Branch points BD	26.56 ± 1.34	30.60 ± 2.37	0.114

% soma–pia distance by AD, Percentage of the distance between the cell soma and the pial surface covered by the apical dendrite.

*p < 0.01, **p < 0.05.