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Another blue neuron in the retina

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The diverse population of retinal cell types has now been shown to include one that does a neat trick: an interneuron inverts the sign of the retina's response to blue light, creating the blue-Off output signal to the brain.

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Figure 1: The retinal circuitry that creates blue-On and blue-Off ganglion cells.

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  1. Richard H. Masland is in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Masland, R. Another blue neuron in the retina. Nat Neurosci 15, 930–931 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3146

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