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The morphological structure of the inner plexiform layer in the region of sharp vision was investigated under the light microscope in the retina of five species of herring. This layer is a three-dimensional regular grid formed by the club-shaped expansions (synaptic complexes) of the axons of the bipolar cells. These expansions, located at different levels of the inner plexiform layer, form mutually conforming periodic grids differing in their orientation and periods. Analysis of this structure shows that at least three types of bipolar cells participate in its organization.
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Institute of Problems in Information Transmission, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 60–65, January–February, 1975.
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Podugol'nikova, T.A., Maksimov, V.V. Morphological types of bipolar cells identified by regular grids of their axonal expansions in the inner plexiform layer of the herring retina. Neurophysiology 7, 47–51 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063025
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