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Dendritic

Dendritic \Den*drit"ic\, Dendritical \Den*drit"ic*al\, a. Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dendritic

1816; see dendrite + -ic.

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dendritic

a. 1 Having a branching structure similar to a tree 2 Of, pertaining to or possessing dendrites

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dendritic

adj. (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite; "dendritic fiber"

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Usage examples of "dendritic".

I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade - finding, for instance, that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group.

Each Lahit entity is connected to its own subgroups and to its immediate supergroup by a dendritic system that usually resides under the soil, and moves through it with great rapidity, in the same sort of way used by the sporulating tubules of brachiophytic fungi like the fairy-ring mushrooms.

They can be measured biochemically, in terms of a cellular cascade of processes which begins with the opening of ion channels in the synaptic membranes and proceeds by way of complex intracellular signals to the synthesis of new proteins which, inserted into the synaptic and dendritic membranes, are responsible for these morphological changes.

Some of these synapses are on the shafts of the dendrites, others are attached to the tiny spines which stud the dendritic surface and which can be seen in Figure 10.

He then selected a particular class of neurons, recognizable by their long axons, measured the length of each dendritic branch and counted the spines on each, which he then calculated as number of spines per um - that is, millionth of a metre - of dendrite.

In the hours that follow, these glycoproteins are inserted into the synaptic membranes, increasing the number of dendritic spines, and the synaptic contact areas in both left IMHV and left and right LPO.

Further, the types of morphological change we have found and that I discuss in Chapter 10, the changes in synaptic connections due to growth of new dendritic spines, the increases in synapse numbers and dimensions - changes analogous to those found in other labs and in other experimental paradigms - make theoretical sense.

But those few hours have permanently altered the brain, if only by shifting the number and position of a few dendritic spines on a few neurons in particular brain regions.

Patel, S N, and Stewart, M G Changes in the number and structure of dendritic spines, 25 hr after passive avoidance training in the domestic chick Callus domesticus.

But she touched several contact points on the chordal dendritics, cut final power.

The dendritic cells were not limited at all except by the supply of light energy.

The globe was translucent, and Evan could clearly make out the dendritic inclusions within.

What our central information does is reproduce the dendritic arrays on a molecular level using isomeric, double-bonded carbon atoms.

Objects around them were perfectly clear, the dendritic tangle of roots flaring from fallen trees, a pulverised four-wheel-drive rover almost devoured by the blue-grey mud, even the shape of large stones ploughed up and rolled along by thick runnels of sludge.

The neurotransmitter diffuses across the synaptic cleft to the dendritic spine on the postsynaptic side, where the receptor molecules await it.