New metrics for analysis of dendritic branching patterns demonstrating similarities and differences in ON and ON‐OFF directionally selective retinal ganglion cells
New metrics for analysis of dendritic branching patterns demonstrating similarities and differences in ON and ON‐OFF directionally selective retinal ganglion cells
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用于分析树突分支模式的新指标,证明 ON 和 ON-OFF 定向选择性视网膜神经节细胞的相似性和差异
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发表时间:
1992
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E. Famiglietti
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E. Famiglietti
The morphology and dendritic branching patterns of retinal ganglion cells have been studied in Golgi‐impregnated, whole‐mount preparations of rabbit retina. Among a large number of morphological types identified, two have been found that correspond to the morphology of ON and ON‐OFF directionally selective (DS) ganglion cells identified in other studies. These two kinds of DS ganglion cell are compared with each other, as well as with examples of class I, class II, and class III cells, defined here with reference to our previous studies. Cell body, dendritic field size and branching pattern are analyzed in this paper and levels of dendritic stratification are examined in the following paper. ON DS ganglion cells are about 10% larger in soma size and about 5 times the dendritic field area of ON‐OFF DS ganglion cells, when compared at the same retinal location. These two morphological types of ganglion cell can be said to define the upper and lower bounds of an intermediate range of cell body and dendritic field sizes within the whole population of ganglion cells. Nevertheless, in previous physiological studies receptive field sizes of the two types were shown to be similar. This discrepancy between morphological and physiological evidence is considered in the Discussion in terms of a model of the excitatory receptive field of ON‐OFF DS ganglion cells incorporating starburst amacrine cells.
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10.1159/000121492
发表时间:
1983
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Brain, behavior and evolution
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Rodieck,RW;Brening,RK
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Brening,RK