Dendritic Tubulin in One Retinal Bipolar Species
2015-10-22T09:15:05.097852
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  • Tubulin strand tips are at cartesian paraboloid vertices.
  • Tubulin polymers are shown coursing from dendritic spines to axon.
  • Each tubulin polymer is given a relatively unique color.
  • Not shown here is a required tgv subset activating "selector".
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  • This shape has had a horizontal selector applied.
  • Dentritic spines act as tgvs (transient gradient vector sensors).
  • Active dendritic spines are the tiny green and red arrows.
  • green/red (radial/axial) tgvs detect increases in oppositions.
  • A sensed gradient becomes a signal coursing down a white tubulin.
  • Legacy Paraboloid2/Tubulin.py generates the raw data