Fig. 1From: Progression of Alzheimer's disease parallels unusual structural plasticity of human dentate granule cellsMorphological features of human dentate granule cells (DGCs) located in the outer and inner granule cell layer (GCL) of neurologically healthy control subjects. a-c Representative images of Golgi-stained human hippocampi and high-power magnification images showing the somata and primary dendrites of DGCs. d Total dendritic length. e Sholl´s analysis. f Area of the soma. g Number of ending-tips. h Dendritic complexity index (DCI). i Maximum dendritic span. j Percentage of cells with more than one apical primary dendrite. k Schematic representation of dendrite branch orders. l. Number of dendrites in each branch order. Yellow bar: 500 µm. Green bar: 20 µm. DG, dentate gyrus; GCL, granule cell layer; H, hilus; ML, molecular layer. Red and green arrowhead: apical primary dendrites. n = 127 cells obtained from 5 neurologically healthy control subjects. * 0.05 > P ≥ 0.01; ** 0.01 > P ≥ 0.001; and *** P < 0.001. Asterisks represent statistically significant differences in unpaired two-tailed Mann–Whitney U or Chi-squared testBack to article page