Retinal Neurons

• Rod Photoreceptors

  

• Cone Photoreceptors

  • Red Cone (Long Wavelength)
  • Green Cone (Medium Wavelength)
  • Blue Cone (Short Wavelength)
  • Double Cones (non-primate)

• Horizontal Cells

  • Cat
    • Type A
    • Type B
  • Monkey
    • HI
    • HII
    • HIII

• Bipolar Cells

  • Rod Bipolar
  • Midget Bipolar
    • Invaginating Midget Bipolar
    • Flat Midget Bipolar
  • Invaginating Blue Bipolar
  • Diffuse Bipolar
    • DB1
    • DB2
    • DB3
  • Cat Cone bipolars [Kolb (Famiglietti, McGuire, Cohen, Pourcho)]
    • cb1 (na3, CBa2,?,?) "off"/light-hyperpolarizing
    • cb2 (na1 or na2, CBa1,?,?) "off"/light-hyperpolarizing
    • cb3 (na/b,CBa4,?,?) "off"/light-hyperpolarizing
    • cb4 (wab, CBb3,not,?) "on"/light-depolarizing
    • cb5 (nb2, CBb1, b1, CBb1) "on"/light-depolarizing
    • cb6 (nb1, CBb2, b2, CBb2) "on"/light-depolarizing
    • cb7
    • cb8 (wb,? ,b5,?)
    • ? (?, CBa3, ?,?) "off"/light-hyperpolarizing
    • ? (?, ?, b3, ?)
    • ? (?, ?, b4, ?)

• Amacrine Cells

  • Catecholaminergic Amacrine Cells
  • Cholinergic Amacrine Cells
    • ChAT Amacrine (Ca, nondisplaced)
    • ChAT Displaced Amacrine (Cb)
    • Starburst Amacrine
  • Dopaminergic Amacrine Cells
  • GABAergic Amacrine Cells
    • GABAergic Axon-Bearing Amacrine Cells - macaque, rabbit's PA1
    • A2 - cat
    • A10 - cat
    • A12 - cat
    • A13 - cat
    • A15 - cat
    • A17 - cat, wide-field
    • A19 - cat, wide-field
  • Glycinergic Amacrine Cells
    • A3
    • A4
    • AII (A7)
    • A8
  • Polyaxonal Amacrine Cells - rabbit
    • PA1 macaque's GABAergic Axon-Bearing Amacrine
    • PA2
    • PA3
    • PA4
  • A18 - cat, wide-field
  • A20 - cat, wide-field
  • A21 - cat, wide-field
  • A22 - cat, wide-field
  • Peptide-Immunoreactive Amacrine Cells
  • Serotonin-Accumulating Amacrine Cells
  • Off Invaginating Midget Amacrine
  • Displaced Amacrine

• Interplexiform Cells

  • Interplexiform

• Ganglion Cells

  • Cat

    • Anatomical Alpha/Physiological Y
      • On Alpha cell
      • Off Alpha cell
    • Anatomical Beta/Physiological X
      • On Beta Cell
      • Off Beta Cell
    • Epsilon
    • Monoamine Ganglion Cell
    • Anatomical Zeta
    
    

  • Monkey/Human

    • Parvocellular projecting ganglion cells
      • Midget/Type I/P Cell/Spatial-Color opponent
        • On Midget cell
        • Off Midget cell
      • Bistratified Cell/Type II/Color opponent
        • Bistratified On Blue
    • Magnocellular projecting ganglion cells
      • On Parasol/?Type III?/M Cell/?Spatial opponent?
      • Off Parasol/?Type III?/M Cell/?Spatial opponent?
    • Garland Ganglion Cell

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