TY - JOUR
T1 - Saturated Reconstruction of a Volume of Neocortex
AU - Kasthuri, Narayanan
AU - Hayworth, Kenneth Jeffrey
AU - Berger, Daniel Raimund
AU - Schalek, Richard Lee
AU - Conchello, José Angel
AU - Knowles-Barley, Seymour
AU - Lee, Dongil
AU - Vázquez-Reina, Amelio
AU - Kaynig, Verena
AU - Jones, Thouis Raymond
AU - Roberts, Mike
AU - Morgan, Josh Lyskowski
AU - Tapia, Juan Carlos
AU - Seung, Hyunjune Sebastian
AU - Roncal, William Gray
AU - Vogelstein, Joshua Tzvi
AU - Burns, Randal
AU - Sussman, Daniel Lewis
AU - Priebe, Carey Eldin
AU - Pfister, Hanspeter
AU - Lichtman, Jeff William
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - We describe automated technologies to probe the structure of neural tissue at nanometer resolution and use them to generate a saturated reconstruction of a sub-volume of mouse neocortex in which all cellular objects (axons, dendrites, and glia) and many sub-cellular components (synapses, synaptic vesicles, spines, spine apparati, postsynaptic densities, and mitochondria) are rendered and itemized in a database. We explore these data to study physical properties of brain tissue. For example, by tracing the trajectories of all excitatory axons and noting their juxtapositions, both synaptic and non-synaptic, with every dendritic spine we refute the idea that physical proximity is sufficient to predict synaptic connectivity (the so-called Peters' rule). This online minable database provides general access to the intrinsic complexity of the neocortex and enables further data-driven inquiries.
AB - We describe automated technologies to probe the structure of neural tissue at nanometer resolution and use them to generate a saturated reconstruction of a sub-volume of mouse neocortex in which all cellular objects (axons, dendrites, and glia) and many sub-cellular components (synapses, synaptic vesicles, spines, spine apparati, postsynaptic densities, and mitochondria) are rendered and itemized in a database. We explore these data to study physical properties of brain tissue. For example, by tracing the trajectories of all excitatory axons and noting their juxtapositions, both synaptic and non-synaptic, with every dendritic spine we refute the idea that physical proximity is sufficient to predict synaptic connectivity (the so-called Peters' rule). This online minable database provides general access to the intrinsic complexity of the neocortex and enables further data-driven inquiries.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.054
DO - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.054
M3 - Article
C2 - 26232230
AN - SCOPUS:84938233335
SN - 0092-8674
VL - 162
SP - 648
EP - 661
JO - Cell
JF - Cell
IS - 3
ER -