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amacrine cell

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000561


Interneuron of the vertebrate retina. They integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. They lack large axons. [ MESH:D025042 GOC:tfm WikipediaVersioned:Amacrine_cell&oldid=1023572246 ]

Synonyms: amacrine neuron

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:67766
  • BTO:0004044
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human_reference_atlas

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Amacrine cell

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606