Abstract
Neural and glial cells are the fundamental cellular components of brain tissue. When compared to cells which form the majority of the body tissues, neural cells appear as characterized by their shapes, which exhibit a large variety of branched geometries (Fig. 1). Such a branched architecture is observed in the whole nervous tissue, but shape specificities can be noticed from one brain region to another. Nevertheless, among this diversity, similar geometries are found in the same region of different brains of the same species or in the same region of various brains selected, as example, in the vertebrate phylogenetic scale. These observations suggest that neural branched geometry is certainly related, in part, to the expression of genetic factors which are preserved during phylogenesis.
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Ternaux, JP. (2001). Neuronal Arborization. In: Fleury, V., Gouyet, JF., Léonetti, M. (eds) Branching in Nature. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06162-6_9
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