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Review
. 1996 Jan 23;93(2):596-601.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.2.596.

Molecular biology of retinal ganglion cells

M Xiang  1 , H Zhou, J Nathans
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Review

Molecular biology of retinal ganglion cells

M Xiang et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

Retinal ganglion cells are the output neurons that encode and transmit information from the eye to the brain. Their diverse physiologic and anatomic properties have been intensively studied and appear to account well for a number of psychophysical phenomena such as lateral inhibition and chromatic opponency. In this paper, we summarize our current view of retinal ganglion cell properties and pose a number of questions regarding underlying molecular mechanisms. As an example of one approach to understanding molecular mechanisms, we describe recent work on several POU domain transcription factors that are expressed in subsets of retinal ganglion cells and that appear to be involved in ganglion cell development.

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