Dendrites are branching filaments which extend from the
main body of a neuron (nerve cell) to propagate electrochemical
signals. Spines are small protrusions on the dendrites.
This dataset gives the locations of 566 spines
observed on one branch of the dendritic tree of a rat neuron.
The spines are classified according to their shape into three types:
mushroom, stubby or thin.
The data have been analysed in Jammalamadaka et al (2013) and
Baddeley et al (2014). Please cite these papers and
acknowledge the Kosik Lab, UC Santa Barbara, in any use of the data.
Kosik Lab, UC Santa Barbara (Dr Kenneth Kosik, Dr Sourav Banerjee).
Formatted for spatstat by Dr Aruna Jammalamadaka.
References
Baddeley, A., Jammalamadaka, A. and Nair, G. (2014)
Multitype point process analysis of spines on the
dendrite network of a neuron.
Applied Statistics (Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society, Series C), In press.
doi: 10.1111/rssc.12054
Jammalamadaka, A., Banerjee, S., Manjunath, B.S. and Kosik, K. (2013)
Statistical Analysis of Dendritic Spine Distributions in
Rat Hippocampal Cultures.
BMC Bioinformatics14, 287.