bipolar cell

A bipolar cell is a type of neuron which has two extensions.

Bipolar cells are so-named as they have a central body from which two sets of processes arise.

Bipolar cells are specialized sensory neurons for the transmission of special senses.

Bipolar cells rely on a different mechanism.

This signaling happens before bipolar cells form connections in the inner plexiform layer.

In many cases, they are connected to midget bipolar cells, which are linked to one cone each.

During this time, the neurons of the dentate nucleus are similar in shape and form, being mainly bipolar cells.

The synaptic terminal forms a synapse with another neuron, for example a bipolar cell.

Rod bipolar cells do not synapse directly on to ganglion cells.

It contains bipolar cells as well as multipolar cells.

The bipolar cells, by far the most numerous, are round or oval in shape, and each is prolonged into an inner and an outer process.

Bipolar cells effectively transfer information from rods and cones to ganglion cells.

If a ray of light were to reach just one rod cell, the cell's response may not be enough to hyperpolarize the connected bipolar cell.

Cholinergic wave activity eventually dies out and the release of glutamate in bipolar cells generates waves.

This neurotransmitter hyperpolarizes the bipolar cell.

So-called OFF bipolar cells are, like most neurons, excited by the released glutamate.

In the dark, the rhodopsin absorbs no light therefore releasing glutamate cells which inhibit the bipolar cell.

Bistratified cells receive their input from bipolar cells and amacrine cells.

Cajal described in 1891 slender horizontal bipolar cells in the developing marginal zone of lagomorphs.

Unlike most neurons, bipolar cells communicate via graded potentials, rather than action potentials.

Bipolar cells differentiate later than amacrine and ganglion cells which could be the cause for this switch in wave behavior.

Waves are still present after bipolar cells make synaptic connection with amacrine and ganglion cells.

In this respect, auditory nerve fibers are somewhat unique bipolar cells in that action potentials pass through the soma.

Rod cells in the retina are connected to bipolar cells, which transmit the nerve impulse to the next set of neurons.

Transduction involves chemical messages sent from the photoreceptors to the bipolar cells to the ganglion cells.