PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shyam Srinivasan
AU  - Charles F Stevens
TI  - A quantitative description of the mouse piriform cortex
AID  - 10.1101/099002
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 099002
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/10/099002.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/10/099002.full
AB  - In this report, we provide a quantitative description for 2 aspects of the mouse piriform cortex. First, we give volumetric estimates of regions within the anterior and posterior piriform cortex. Second, we estimate the neuronal densities in each of these regions. From these two estimates, we calculate that the mouse piriform contains around half a million neurons equally distributed over the anterior and posterior piriform cortex. Quantitative descriptions such as these are important because they make it possible to construct realistic models and provide a constraint that theories of the olfactory circuit must fulfil. We show how quantitative descriptions can be useful for modelling by using our data to refine and improve earlier models of piriform cortex activity.