Retina Cross-section (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Retina Cross-section

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A cross-section of healthy retina shows S-cone bipolar cells (marked by *) in the inner nuclear area. Each bipolar cell sends a single dendrite toward the photoreceptor ribbons (magenta) to synapse with a single S-cone photoreceptor (blue).

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

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