Interneuron of the vertebrate retina. They integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. They lack large axons. [ GOC:tfm https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amacrine_cell&oldid=1023572246 MESH:D025042 ]
Synonyms: amacrine neuron
Term information
- BTO:0004044
- FMA:67766
cellxgene_subset, human_reference_atlas, eye_upper_slim
Term relations
- retinal cell
- ectoderm-derived structure
- interneuron
- part of some retina
- synapsed to some retinal ganglion cell
- part of some system
- in taxon some Vertebrata
- develops from some neuroblast (sensu Vertebrata)