title: A note on the distribution of dendritic spines.
abstract: Some previously published data concerning the spatial distributions of dendritic spines are re-examined. It appears that such distributions are not completely random, but show a tendency towards repulsion, that is to say a deficiency of short inter-spine distances and an excess of long distances when compared to a totally random model. While this lack of total randomness contradicts an assumption underlying a previously published technique for estimating total spine number, it does not appear to seriously interfere with this technique.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Expérimentale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Marchand
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garenc
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003712:Dendrites / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011897:Random Allocation