Encendido y apagado del circuito retiniano por mecanismos moleculares divergentes

Lu O Sun1, Zheng Jiang, Michal Rivlin-Etzion

  • 1Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 2, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

La semaforina 6A y la plexina A2 son cruciales para el desarrollo de las células amacrinas de estallido estelar (SAC) en la retina del ratón. Este hallazgo vincula la morfología dendrítica con el procesamiento del movimiento direccional en el sistema visual.

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