Bipolar Cell Dendrites (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Bipolar Cell Dendrites

Caption

Bipolar cells left without a connection to a photoreceptor start to grow new branches, called dendrites. This image shows two S-cone bipolar cells (marked by *) contacting the same S-cone axon terminal (arrowhead). The dendrite from a deafferented S-cone bipolar cell bypasses M-cones to synapse with new S-cones.

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Beier et al, 2018, <i>Current Biology</i>

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