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Deciphering the retina's wiring diagram

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By simultaneously recording from retinal ganglion cells while stimulating a single cone, Chichilnisky and Baylor demonstrate that the strength of physiological connections within a retinal microcircuit is linearly proportional to the number of anatomically defined synapses.

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Figure 1: Microcircuit for blue-yellow ganglion cell.
Figure 2: Neighboring blue/yellow ganglion cells (gray) from macaque fovea, as reconstructed from electron micrographs of serial sections.

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