Amacrine cells are interneurons in the human retina that interact with retinal ganglion cells and/or bipolar cells.
- Amacrine cells are a type of interneuron within the human retina.
- Amacrine cells are embedded in the retinal circuitry.
- Amacrine cells are activated by and provide feedback to bipolar cells. They also form junctions with ganglion cells and communicate with each other.
- Amacrine cells send complex spatial and temporal information about the visual world to ganglion cells.
- Amacrine cells contribute additional information to the flow of data transmitted through bipolar cells and control and refine the response of ganglion cells (including their subtypes) to stimuli.
- Most amacrine cells do not have long, tail-like axons. However, they do possess multiple connections to other neurons in their vicinity.
- Axons are the part of neurons that transmit electrical impulses to other neurons.
- Neurons, of which amacrine cells are an example, are the nerve cells that comprise the human central nervous system.
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