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amacrine cell

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Interneuron of the vertebrate retina. They integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. They lack large axons. [ ]

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amacrine cell

Synonyms
  • amacrine neuron
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Not clear if this term overlaps with retinal bipolar neuron (CL:0000748).

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