title: Retinal Physiology: Non-Bipolar-Cell Excitatory Drive in the Inner Retina.
abstract: The long-held view that bipolar cells provide the exclusive excitatory drive to the mammalian inner retina has been challenged: new studies indicate that, instead, at least two cells that lack the dendrites characteristic for bipolar cells, and therefore resemble amacrine cells, excite inner retinal circuits using glutamate.
authors: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: tom@badenlab.org.
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authors: Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: Thomas.euler@cin.uni-tuebingen.de.
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mesh_terms: D025042:Amacrine Cells; D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites; D018698:Glutamic Acid; D012160:Retina; D051245:Retinal Bipolar Cells; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells; D013569:Synapses
chemical_list: D018698:Glutamic Acid