The importance of measurement

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Inhibitory interneurons in a cortical column form hot zones of inhibition in layers 2 and 5A

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/09/21/1113648108.abstract

Meyer et al 2011

Dimensions of a Projection Column and Architecture of VPM and POm Axons in Rat Vibrissal Cortex

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.21974/abstract

Wimmer et al 2010

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain.

Frederico et al 2009.pdf

Three groups of interneurons account for nearly 100% of neocortical GABAergic neurons.

Rudy et al 2010.pdf

Synaptogenesis and pruning in the human cerebral cortex

Huttenlocher and Dabbholchar 1997 synaptogenesis in human cortex.pdf


Counting the number of releasable synaptic vesicles in a presynaptic terminal