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== Types of dendritic patterns == Dendritic arborization, also known as dendritic branching, is a multi-step biological process by which neurons form new dendritic trees and branches to create new synapses.<ref name="urbanska" /> Dendrites in many organisms assume different morphological patterns of branching. The [[Morphology (biology)|morphology]] of dendrites such as branch density and grouping patterns are highly correlated to the function of the neuron. Malformation of dendrites is also tightly correlated to impaired nervous system function.<ref name="Tavosanis" /> Branching morphologies may assume an ''adendritic'' structure (not having a branching structure, or not tree-like), or a tree-like radiation structure. Tree-like arborization patterns can be ''spindled'' (where two dendrites radiate from opposite poles of a cell body with few branches, ''[[Bipolar neuron|see bipolar neurons]]'' ), ''spherical'' (where dendrites radiate in a part or in all directions from a cell body, ''[[Cerebellar granule cell|see cerebellar granule cells]]''), ''laminar'' (where dendrites can either radiate planarly, offset from cell body by one or more stems, or multi-planarly, see [[Retina horizontal cell|retinal horizontal cells]], [[Retinal ganglion cell|retinal ganglion cells]], [[Amacrine cell|retinal amacrine cells]] respectively), ''cylindrical'' (where dendrites radiate in all directions in a cylinder, disk-like fashion, [[Globus pallidus|see pallidal neurons]]), ''conical'' (dendrites radiate like a cone away from cell body, [[Pyramidal cell|see pyramidal cells]]), or fanned (where dendrites radiate like a flat fan as in [[Purkinje cell]]s).
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