FOVEAL RECEPTORS OF THE MONKEY RETINA: FINE STRUCTURE.
The outer segments of the foveal cones of the rhesus monkey are about 40 microns long and 0.9 microns wide. They consist of stacks of membrane-limited, transverse discs about 140 A thick, surrounded by a plasma membrane. The inner segments are about 30 microns long and 2.5 to 3 microns wide at the base, and they taper gradually to a tip diameter of about 1.5 microns. They contain many long mitochondria which are oriented length-wise and are concentrated in the distal portion of the segment. The terminal pedicles show many synaptic contacts, probably as many as 36 per pedicle.
D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane; D004583:Electrons; D000882:Haplorhini; D006653:Histology; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008853:Microscopy; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008928:Mitochondria; D012106:Research; D012160:Retina; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONKEYS; RETINA