Confocal Micrograph of a Single Cone Bipolar Cell (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

Confocal Micrograph of a Single Cone Bipolar Cell

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This is a confocal micrograph of a single cone bipolar cell (green) that extends its dendrites to receive synaptic inputs (red dots) from a local population of cone photoreceptor terminals (violet).

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Sammy Lee

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