University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2019
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Description:
Vision begins in the retina, where ganglion cells separate the visual input into ~30 parallel output channels with different response characteristics to visual stimuli. How retinal ganglion cells obtain such a diversity of functional properties is unclear. The diversity appears to evolve along the signal processing stream from photoreceptors to ganglion cells. Along this pathway, bipolar cells represent pivotal elements by connecting the photoreceptors, the horizontal cells and the amacrine cells to the retinal ganglion cells. Despite their crucial position, our knowledge about bipolar cell...