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Wojciech Krzyzanski, Jonathan Bell, Modelling the geometric features and investigating electrical properties of dendrites in a fish thalamic neuron, Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2007, Pages 271–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqm001
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Abstract
A certain pacific fish has a thalamic nerve cell with a unique dendritic geometry. Instead of the cell having a branching dendritic structure, the large cell of the corpus glomerulosum has, generally, a single dendritic stalk with a large bulbous tip. We formulate a cable-theory model that incorporates the geometry, and then, we solve the problem for a single, localized synaptic current source at the bulb. From the solution representation, we numerically examine the characteristics of the postsynaptic potential due to the presence of the bulbous tip.