Development and morphological organization of photoreceptors

  • Pamela A. Raymond
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Abstract

A common theme in developmental biology is that orderly structures arise out of initially unorganized assemblages of undifferentiated, proliferating cells, and that cells with specific identities often become organized into highly regular patterns of repeating units. A hallmark of neuronal organization is the partitioning or clustering of neurons into repeating functional modules that are collected into more complex structures. In the vertebrate retina, this type of modular organization is of paramount importance for the proper functioning of the neural circuitry, and regular mosaics are found among all classes of neurons and at all levels (Wässle and Reimann, 1978; Marc, 1986). The general organizational principle of the retina is that major categories of neurons are stratified, like the sheets in a layer cake, and within a given lamina, subtypes of neurons are distributed with a regular spacing, typically abutting but often not overlapping one another, like the tiles on a floor.

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Visual Pigment Double Cone Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cone Photoreceptor Single Cone 
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