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Turtle retinal amacrine cells have been classified into twenty-nine morphological types (Kolb 1982; Kolb et al. 1988). Like in other species, four basic physiological types of amacrine cell responses (ON, OFF, slow ON-OFF and fast ON- OFF; e. g. Teranishi et al. 1987) have been described in turtle retina which can be correlated to some of the morphological types (Marchiafava and Weiler 1982; Weiler and Marchiafava 1981; Jensen and DeVoe 1982; Ammermüller and Weiler 1988). However, there still exists a large discrepancy between the number of physiologically and the number of morphologically classified amacrine cell types.
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Ammermüller, J., Weiler, R. (1989). Correlation Between Electrophysiological Responses and Morphological Classes of Turtle Retinal Amacrine Cells. In: Weiler, R., Osborne, N.N. (eds) Neurobiology of the Inner Retina. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74149-4_10
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