| TH-immunoreactive stellate amacrine cell | Versaux-Boteri et al (VB) | The stellate amacrine cells had a large ovoid soma (17.58 ± 1.45 X 14.28 ± 076 micrometers) bearing 2-4 primary dendrites in opposite directions. These dendrites were long, straight, and poorly branched. They had a more or less varicose appearance (Fig. 1) and were observed in approximately the same focal plane as the cell bodies, i.e., at the interface between the inner nuclear layer (INL) and the inner plexiform layer (IPL). These flat amacrine cells were more heavily labelled and exhibited more developed processes in the upper retina. | synonym | | The comparison between anti-DA and anti-TH immunolabelling clearly indicated that only the large TH-positive cells were dopaminergic. The DA-positive cells exhibit the same morphological characteristics as the large TH-positive neurons; they have the same soma size and shape and the same location of soma and dendrites at the interface of the INL and IPL. | Versaux-Botteri C., Martin-Martinelli E., Nguyen-LeGros J., Geffard M., Vigny A. & Denoroy L. | Mihail Bota |
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| 1CA amacrine retinal cell | Nguyen-Legros et al. (NL) | Two subpopulations of TH-immunoreactive (TH-I) cells, which actually contain dopamine (Nguyen-Legros et al., 1994), were first demonstrated in the rat retina. Both are amacrine cells (i.e., intraretinal axonless neurons mostly located in the innermost cell row of the inner nuclear layer [INL]). According to the terminology introduced by Mariani and Hokoc (1988), the type 1CA cells (alternatively called large THI-DA cells (Nguyen-Legros, 1987) CA1 cells (Mitrofanis and Provis, 1990) orAcells [Casini and Brecha, 1992]) are large-bodied, intensely TH-I neurons branching mostly in the outermost sublayer (sublayer 1) of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) (Figs. 1–4, 8 (black cell), 10, 15). A few 1CA cells are displaced to different levels of the IPL or to the GCL in both rodents and primates (Figs. 6–8 [green cell]), but their processes finally join the DA plexus of the IPL sublayer 1 (Martin-Martinelli et al., 1994; Nguyen- Legros et al., 1992). Interplexiform | synonim | | According to the terminology introduced by Mariani and Hokoc (1988), the type 1CA cells (alternatively called large THI-DA cells (Nguyen-Legros, 1987) CA1 cells (Mitrofanis and Provis, 1990) orAcells [Casini and Brecha, 1992]) are large-bodied, intensely TH-I neurons branching mostly in the outermost sublayer (sublayer 1) of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) (Figs. 1–4, 8 (black cell), 10, 15). | Nguyen-Legros J., Versaux-Botteri C. & Savy C. | Mihail Bota |
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