Name | amacrine cell differentiation |
ID | GO_0035881 |
collection_id | Biological process |
Exact synonym | amacrine neuron differentiation |
Description | The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an amacrine cell, an interneuron generated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) of the vertebrate retina. Amacrine cells integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. Amacrine cells lack large axons. |
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