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We measured dendrites with the same methods we had used for axons. Here again, besides the few specimens measured in Braitenberg (1978 b), we relied on Staiger’s (1984) collection. The sample was larger than in the case of the axons, since satisfactory impregnation of the dendritic tree is much more common in Golgi preparations than a complete stain of both dendrites and axons. The stain of the initial segment of the axon, in conjunction with the shape of the dendritic tree, is sufficient in most cases to confidently classify the neurons as belonging to one of our three types.
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Braitenberg, V., Schüz, A. (1998). Length of the Dendritic Trees. In: Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03733-1_18
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