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Development of the Vertebrate Retina pp 149–172Cite as

Dendritic Interactions between Cell Populations in the Developing Retina

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It has been known for some time that the cones of different types in the retinas of fish and birds are distributed in a very precise fashion, forming an almost crystal-like pattern. The first to draw attention to the regular distribution of cells in the inner layers of the mammalian retina was Wässle and Reimann (1978). They showed from an analysis of the distribution of the nearest-neighboring cells that the cell bodies of cat alpha ganglion cells and A- type horizontal cells were each arranged in nonrandom patterns. Subsequently, there have been a number of studies demonstrating that other cell types are arranged in nonrandom distributions (e.g., Wässle et al., 1981c; Tauchi and Masland, 1984; Vaney, 1986). The regular distribution of the cell bodies appears to go hand in hand with the relatively uniform coverage of the retina by the dendritic territories of a particular cell type (Wässle et al, 1981a,b; Tauchi and Masland, 1984). The term coverage, the number of cells overlapping any given point on the retina, is readily computed as the product of the dendritic area and local density of a given cell type (Cleland et al, 1975). The functional significance of the regular spacing of the cell bodies and the uniform coverage of the retina is clear. If the retina is to sample the visual world faithfully and convey the information to the brain, cells dealing with different aspects of the visual scene should be distributed so as to leave no holes in our perceptual world. The regular spacing of the cell bodies and relatively uniform coverage ensure this in a most economic fashion

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Perry, V.H. (1989). Dendritic Interactions between Cell Populations in the Developing Retina. In: Finlay, B.L., Sengelaub, D.R. (eds) Development of the Vertebrate Retina. Perspectives in Vision Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5592-2_7

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