dendritic
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In two-week-old mice, before weaning, dendritic spines were spread relatively evenly across the neuron.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
Until now, however, scientists did not understand how retinoic acid affects dendritic cells themselves.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
Continuous fields, ion flows, dendritic integration, local oscillatory coupling, and emergent electromagnetic interactions are not just biological "details" that can be ignored while extracting an abstract algorithm.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
"The long and thin column-like structures of these dendritic nanotubes help transfer information quickly from neuron to neuron," says Kwon.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025
Those twisted dendritic legs get stuck in the pitch, and the stuff begins to pull me down like I’m a dinosaur in tar.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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