Table 2 Morphological properties of in vitro recorded principal neurons in the different LA and BA subnuclei. Data presented as the median with the first and third quartiles in parentheses. Significant differences, indicated by asterisks (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001), were determined by Kruskal–Wallis ANOVA followed by post hoc Dunn’s test.

Total dendritic length (mm)

4.24

(3.47, 5.47)

6.57

(5.88, 7.29)

6.29

(5.76, 6.83)

5.75

(4.24, 6.70)

< 0.001

***

< 0.001

***

0.008

**

0.11

1

0.16

1

Node number

26.00

(22.50, 33.50)

40.00

(32.00, 48.50)

36.00

(33.00, 42.75)

32.50

(22.25, 44.00)

0.002

**

0.002

**

0.037

*

0.44

1

0.12

1

The length of dendrites of different dendritic orders (mm)

1st

0.18

(0.07, 0.25)

0.15

(0.05, 0.41)

0.19

(0.07, 0.41)

0.10

(0.06, 0.19)

0.534

2nd

0.51

(0.25, 0.97)

0.69

(0.45, 0.90)

0.74

(0.45, 0.99)

0.56

(0.40, 0.82)

0.448

3rd

0.90

(0.66, 1.23)

1.37

(0.91, 2.01)

1.16

(0.99, 1.54)

1.18

(0.76, 1.43)

0.108

4th

0.96

(0.65, 1.49)

1.70

(1.13, 2.11)

1.61

(1.08, 2.01)

1.25

(0.97, 1.59)

0.009

**

0.015

*

0.042

*

0.622

1

0.435

0.897

5th

0.68

(0.57, 0.87)

1.09

(0.95, 1.60)

0.92

(0.56, 1.31)

1.12

(0.66, 1.64)

0.016

*

0.021

*

1

0.055

0.594

1

1

6th

0.77

(0.25, 0.98)

0.73

(0.47, 1.06)

0.54

(0.25, 0.97)

0.72

(0.41, 1.01)

0.480

7th

0.19

(0.13, 0.64)

0.49

(0.24, 0.73)

0.44

(0.19, 0.68)

0.34

(0.20, 0.54)

0.321

Sholl-analysis

0–50 μm

0.55

(0.46, 0.72)

0.97

(0.80, 1.12)

0.91

(0.78, 1.09)

0.79

(0.60, 1.09)

< 0.001

***

< 0.001

***

< 0.001

***

0.021

*

1

0.208

0.740

50–100 μm

1.20

(1.06, 1.51)

1.95

(1.70, 2.13)

1.94

(1.62, 2.01)

1.73

(1.30, 2.25)

< 0.001

***

< 0.001

***

0.007

**

0.016

*

1

1

1

100–150 μm

1.25

(1.00, 1.68)

1.65

(1.48, 1.86)

1.68

(1.45, 1.84)

1.46

(1.15, 1.78)

0.040

*

0.078

0.122

1

1

0.681

0.930

150–200 μm

0.78

(0.54, 1.02)

1.02

(0.76, 1.23)

0.89

(0.71, 1.06)

0.74

(0.55, 0.93)

0.049

*

0.266

1

1

1

0.045

1