ShuTu: Open-Source Software for Efficient and Accurate Reconstruction of Dendritic Morphology.
| Autor: | Jin DZ; Department of Physics and Center for Neural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States., Zhao T; Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, United States., Hunt DL; Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, United States., Tillage RP; Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, United States., Hsu CL; Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, United States., Spruston N; Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, United States. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in neuroinformatics [Front Neuroinform] 2019 Oct 31; Vol. 13, pp. 68. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 31 (Print Publication: 2019). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fninf.2019.00068 |
| Abstrakt: | Neurons perform computations by integrating inputs from thousands of synapses-mostly in the dendritic tree-to drive action potential firing in the axon. One fruitful approach to studying this process is to record from neurons using patch-clamp electrodes, fill the recorded neurons with a substance that allows subsequent staining, reconstruct the three-dimensional architectures of the dendrites, and use the resulting functional and structural data to develop computer models of dendritic integration. Accurately producing quantitative reconstructions of dendrites is typically a tedious process taking many hours of manual inspection and measurement. Here we present ShuTu, a new software package that facilitates accurate and efficient reconstruction of dendrites imaged using bright-field microscopy. The program operates in two steps: (1) automated identification of dendritic processes, and (2) manual correction of errors in the automated reconstruction. This approach allows neurons with complex dendritic morphologies to be reconstructed rapidly and efficiently, thus facilitating the use of computer models to study dendritic structure-function relationships and the computations performed by single neurons. (Copyright © 2019 Jin, Zhao, Hunt, Tillage, Hsu and Spruston.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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