| inner alpha retinal ganglion cell | Peichl (Peichl) | Rat alpha cell dendritic trees. like those of all mammalian alpha cells, are monostratified in the IPL in either an inner sublamina (inner alpha cell) or an outer sublamina (outer alpha cell). Dendrites of inner alpha cells branch most frequently in the distal dendritic field; near the soma there are dendrite-free zone. | identical | | Figure 2A depicts photomicrograph of dendritic morphologies of a pair of Lucifer-injected large ganglion cells. The right hand cell has a polygonal soma like the ones shown in Fig. 1, and a morphology typical of alpha cells in having 5-6 primary dendrites which branch out out simmetrically, together with a thick axon (Boycott and Wassle 1974; Amthor et al. 1983; Peichl et al. 1987a and 1987b). Similarly, most of the dye-injected cells having a large polygonal soma more than 20 micrometers in diameter were identified as typical alpha cells. The dendrites of all these cells were found ramifying in the inner part of the IPL, namely in sublamina b. We will therefore refer to them as inner alpha cells (Peichl 1989). | Tauchi M., Morigiwa K. & Fukuda Y. | Mihail Bota |
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