The Development of the Vertebrate Retina: A Comparative Survey

by G. Gra1/4n and G. Grün

The mature vertebrate retina is a highly complicated array of several kinds of cells, capable of receiving light impulses, transforming them into neuronal membrane currents, and transmitting these in a meaningful way to central processing. Before it starts to develop, it is a small sheet of unconspicuous cells, which do not differ from other cells of the central nervous system. The chain of events which lead to the trans- formation from this stage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540117709
• ISBN13: 9783540117704
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"