Self-awareness in the retina

Elife. 2015 Aug 25:4:e10233. doi: 10.7554/eLife.10233.

Abstract

Proteins called gamma-protocadherins are essential for the establishment of working circuits of neurons in the retina.

Keywords: developmental biology; direction selectivity; mouse; neuroscience; retina; self-recognition; starburst amacrine cell; stem cells; synapse elimination.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Amacrine Cells / drug effects*
  • Amacrine Cells / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Cadherins / metabolism*
  • Dendrites / drug effects*
  • Dendrites / physiology*

Substances

  • Cadherins