Somatic Connections of Clutch Cells in L4 of Cat Visual Cortex

<div><p>(A) Radial distribution of the average number of postsynaptic somata contacted by the axon. Dots with drop-lines show empirical distribution obtained by pooling data from the two cells [<a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010011#pcbi-0010011-b26" target="_blank">26</a>]. Bars show theoretical distribution.</p> <p>(B) Image representing the average structure of the clutch cell axon. Yellow dot depicts cell soma. The ellipsoid captures the spatial extent of the synaptic cloud identified from the image. The dimensions and the displacement of the cloud were measured as illustrated in <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010011#pcbi-0010011-g001" target="_blank">Figure 1</a>B. The image was created using axonal arborization drawings based on data representations in [<a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010011#pcbi-0010011-b31" target="_blank">31</a>] by kind permission of Z. Kisvárday. </p>