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Stochasticity in Ca(2+) Increase in Spines Enables Robust and Sensitive Information Coding

A dendritic spine is a very small structure (∼0.1 µm(3)) of a neuron that processes input timing information. Why are spines so small? Here, we provide functional reasons; the size of spines is optimal for information coding. Spines code input timing information by the probability of Ca(2+) increase...

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Autores principales: Koumura, Takuya, Urakubo, Hidetoshi, Ohashi, Kaoru, Fujii, Masashi, Kuroda, Shinya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24932482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099040