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Physiological characterization and functional heterogeneity of narrow‐field mammalian amacrine cells
Author(s) -
Pang JiJie,
Gao Fan,
Wu Samuel M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.222141
Subject(s) - retina , neuroscience , retinal , amacrine cell , visual field , retinal waves , visual system , biology , anatomy , intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells , retinal ganglion cell , biochemistry
Non‐technical summary Retina is the first neural station of the visual system, and visual images falling onto the retina are encoded and processed by three layers of neurons. Amacyine cells are a major class of third‐order retinal neurons that serve important visual functions, including shape recognition, motion detection and directional selectivity. Here we show for the first time a systematic examination of light‐evoked electrical responses, cell morphology and relative rod/cone inputs of the narrow‐field amacrine cells in the mouse retina. Results from this study provide a functional description of how retinal neurons are interconnected and how visual information is processed in the retinal synaptic network.