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Table 2 Estimated population statistics based on published electron microscopy studies

From: Automated 4D analysis of dendritic spine morphology: applications to stimulus-induced spine remodeling and pharmacological rescue in a disease model

 

Head width

Neck width

Length

Median

0.40

0.15

1.36

Mean

0.46

0.15

1.50

Range

0.84

0.42

4.80

  1. Geometric spine measurements (μm) from previously published electron microscopy studies were pooled to generate estimated median, mean, and range values for the population of dendritic spines on hippocampal neurons [10, 29, 31, 36, 77].