| A17 amacrine cell | Wassle (Wassle) | The amacrine cell stratified diffusely throughout the inner plexiform layer (IPL). It sparsely branched processes contained varicosities and ramified in the innermost part of the IPL (sublamina 5, SL5). Some of the processes appear to extend beyond the IPL and GCL, because the dendritic field was collapsed into a single plane. From our reconstructions, we propose that this cell type possesses a dendritic-field diameter of more than 150 micrometers and therefore belongs to the wide-field amacrine cells. | synonym | | Morphological evidence for an A17-type of amacrine cell in the rat retina was first reported by Perry and Walker (1980) in Golgi-stained whole-mount retinae. They described a wide-field, diffusely stratifying amacrine cell with dendrites bearing varicosities and ramifying in the innermost part of the retina. The amacrine cell type we investigated in this study showed the same appearance. | Peichl L. & Gonzalez-Soriano J. | Mihail Bota |
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