Verwer R W, Van Pelt J
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam.
Bull Math Biol. 1990;52(5):629-41. doi: 10.1007/BF02462102.
The geometrical properties of neurons are important for the way they function within neural circuits. The arborescent processes of neurons that are necessary for the transmission of the information are formed by branching and elongation of segments. In studies that model the outgrowth the tree structures have generally been considered as binary. However, multifurcations do occur. It will be shown that if the multifurcations can be considered as aggregates of bifurcations they may be included in the topological analysis of neuronal branching patterns.
神经元的几何特性对于它们在神经回路中的功能方式至关重要。信息传递所必需的神经元分支状突起是由节段的分支和伸长形成的。在模拟生长过程的研究中，树状结构通常被视为二叉的。然而，多分支确实会出现。结果将表明，如果多分支可以被视为二叉分支的集合，那么它们可能会被纳入神经元分支模式的拓扑分析中。
