Dendritic spines of pyramidal neurons are the sites of most excitatory synapses in mammalian brain cortex. This method describes a 3D quantitative analysis of spine morphologies in human cortical pyramidal glutamatergic neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Gouder, L., Tinevez, J., Goubran-Botros, H., Benchoua, A., Bourgeron, T., Cloëz-Tayarani, I. Three-dimensional Quantification of Dendritic Spines from Pyramidal Neurons Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (104), e53197, doi:10.3791/53197 (2015).