Rod and Cone Pathways in the Inner Plexiform Layer of Cat Retina
SciencePublished 4 October 1974
Helga Kolb, Edward V. Famiglietti
Citations472
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In cat retina, rod bipolar terminials do not synapse on ganglion cells but on two types of amacrine cell (types I and II), which appears to play a special internuncial role between bipolars and ganglions in the rod system.
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In cat retina, rod bipolar terminials do not synapse on ganglion cells but on two types of amacrine cell (types I and II). Cone bipolars synapse directly on ganglion cells and on type I amacrines. The type II amacrine appears to play a special internuncial role between bipolars and ganglion cells in the rod system.
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