amacrine cell
Interneuron of the vertebrate retina. They 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. They lack large axons. [ MESH:D025042 GOC:tfm WikipediaVersioned:Amacrine_cell&oldid=1023572246 ]
Synonyms: amacrine neuron
Term info
- FMA:67766
- BTO:0004044
human_reference_atlas
Amacrine cell
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- retinal cell
- interneuron
- part of some retina
- synapsed to some retinal ganglion cell
- in taxon some Vertebrata
- develops from some neuroblast (sensu Vertebrata)