Talk:Dendrite

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Here is some information that would be useful to add to article eventually in the form of drawings:

There are several different patterns of dendrites:

adendritic
spindle radiation
spherical radiation
  stellate
  partial stellate
laminar radiation
  planar
  offset
  multi
cylindrical radiation
conical radiation
biconical radiation
fan radiation

Also, if we zoom on a single dendrite, we can see that a group of synapses follows the following patterns:

variscosity
filipodium
simple spine sessile
pedunculated
branched spine
claw ending
brush ending
thorny excrescence
racemose appendage
coralline excrescence

[edit] Perisomatic dendrites

I added a phrase about perisomatic dendrites - a feature unique to Betz cells (among pyramidal) AFAIK. Maybe there should be a short list of their somal surface localisation types, something like this:

• Basal dendrites, leaving the cell at the base. Typical to the most pyramidal cells.
• Apical denrite, a big single dendrite usually pointing to the pia mater, but not so in Martinotti cells.
• Perisomatic dendrites, coming from almost any place of the soma. Typical to the Betz cells. (and maybe some other types?)

--CopperKettle 15:02, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

dendritic links to this page - dendritic could also refer to the dendritic cells of the immune system - there should at least be a disambiguation

[edit] Dendritic arbor

there is a reference to a 'dendritic arbor' but no definition as to what that is, could someone write a small definition for this please Paskari 10:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)