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Abdul Rhman Hassan1, Jeremy M Bohl1, Tomomi Ichinose1

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.

Handbook of Clinical Neurology
|May 9, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
Amacrine cellBipolar cellFeedbackHorizontal cellInhibitionNeural networkRibbon synapse

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