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Are Human Dendrites Different?

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The first patch-clamp recordings from the dendrites of human neocortical neurons have recently been reported by Beaulieu-Laroche et al. and Gidon et al. These studies have shown that human dendrites are electrically excitable, exhibiting backpropagating action potentials and fast dendritic calcium spikes. This new frontier highlights the potential for interspecies differences in the biophysics of dendritic computation.

Keywords

dendrite
cortex
pyramidal cell
patch clamp
synaptic integration
neural computation
human
rodent

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