Self-organizing Mechanism for Development of Space-filling Neuronal Dendrites

Kaoru Sugimura; Kohei Shimono; Tadashi Uemura; Atsushi Mochizuki

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030212

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Self-organizing Mechanism for Development of Space-filling Neuronal Dendrites

Kaoru Sugimura ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ksugimura@brain.riken.jp (KS); mochi@nibb.ac.jp (AM)

¤ Current address: Laboratory for Cell Function Dynamics, Advanced Technology Development Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Kohei Shimono,

Affiliation Department of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Tadashi Uemura,

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Atsushi Mochizuki

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ksugimura@brain.riken.jp (KS); mochi@nibb.ac.jp (AM)

Affiliation Division of Theoretical Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Self-organizing Mechanism for Development of Space-filling Neuronal Dendrites

Kaoru Sugimura,
Kohei Shimono,
Tadashi Uemura,
Atsushi Mochizuki

Published: November 16, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030212

About the Authors

Kaoru Sugimura

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ksugimura@brain.riken.jp (KS); mochi@nibb.ac.jp (AM)

¤ Current address: Laboratory for Cell Function Dynamics, Advanced Technology Development Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Kohei Shimono

Affiliation Department of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Tadashi Uemura

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Mochizuki

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ksugimura@brain.riken.jp (KS); mochi@nibb.ac.jp (AM)

Affiliation Division of Theoretical Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

K. Sugimura and A. Mochizuki designed the work. K. Sugimura and K. Shimono performed simulation and analyzed the data. K. Sugimura, A. Mochizuki, and T. Uemura wrote the paper.

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