Morphological types of horizontal cell in the retina of the domestic cat

Boycott, BB; Peichl, L; Wässle, H

doi:10.1098/rspb.1978.0103

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Morphological types of horizontal cell in the retina of the domestic cat

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Peichl, L
Wässle Group, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society;

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Wässle, H
Wässle Group, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society;

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Boycott, B., Peichl, L., & Wässle, H. (1978). Morphological types of horizontal cell in the retina of the domestic cat. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences (London), 203(1152), 229-245. doi:10.1098/rspb.1978.0103.

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Two morphologically distinct types of horizontal cell are described from Golgi-stained whole mounts of the cat retina. They are referred to as A-type and B-type cells. The two types differ in their dendritic branching pattern, their overall size and the absence or presence of an axon. At every retinal position the dendrites of B-type cells branch more densely and overlap each other more frequently than do the dendrites of A-type cells. At equivalent retinal positions the dendritic field size of A-type cells is greater than that of B-type cells by a factor of about 1.5. Only B-type cells have an axon, which branches at the end into a large axon terminal system. The axons have no preferred direction of orientation. The stain-ability of horizontal cells by different Golgi methods is discussed.