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Science 4 October 1974:
Vol. 186. no. 4158, pp. 47 - 49
DOI: 10.1126/science.186.4158.47
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Rod and Cone Pathways in the Inner Plexiform Layer of Cat Retina

Helga Kolb 1 and E. V. Famigilietti 1

1 National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

In cat retina, rod bipolar terminials do not synapse on ganglion cells but on two types of amacrine cell (types I and II). Cone bipolars synapse directly on ganglion cells and on type I amacrines. The type II amacrine appears to play a special internuncial role between bipolars and ganglion cells in the rod system.


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