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DSCAM localization and function at the mouse cone synapse.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 1 Aug 2014
de Andrade Gabriel Belem, Long Samuel S, Fleming Harrison, Li Wei, Fuerst Peter G
Abstract excerpt
The Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM) is required for regulation of cell number, soma spacing, and cell type-specific dendrite avoidance in many types of retinal ganglion and amacrine cells. In this study we assay the organization of cells making up the outer plexiform layer of the retina in the absence of Dscam. Some types of OFF bipolar cells, type 3b and type 4 bipolar cells, had defects in dendrite...
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