terminal branch

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The 108 terminal branches are sorted by remoteness of the proximal end, stretched out horizontally and shown in grey.
The extensive, radially-symmetric dendritic arbor of these cells shows only proximal branching and thereby very long terminal branches.
Dendrites are wavier and give rise to short terminal branches in patches located in both proximal and distal regions of the dendritic tree.
In the background, the lengths and positions of 108 terminal branches are sorted by remoteness.
Curiously, most cells also possessed one to two terminal branches that were relatively short, extending only 50-100 mm.
H1 axon terminal from the retinal periphery, 5.9 mm temporal to the fovea, focus on the terminal branches of the axonal arbor.
Convex polygons connecting the tip of dendrites or axon terminal branches were used to measure dendritic-field area and axon-terminal area, respectively.
For both species, males usually significantly over-utilized the edges of terminal branches, and in a few cases near edges of branches, while females mostly over-utilized the grouped remaining branch positions.
Branching density is much higher, however, and the dendritic tree resembles nothing so much as a thicket of brambles with many short dendritic appendages and terminal branches.
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