Translations:Amacrine Cell/22/en

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The first characterization of amacrine cells is often attributed to Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Using the Golgi method of staining neurons, he first saw these cells in the avian retina in the late 1880s, naming them "amacrine" cells ("amacrine" meaning "without axon" in Greek). Though he was the first to call them amacrine cells, he built on the earlier work of J. Müller, who had previously described "spongioblasts" in the retina that were likely the very same cells Ramón y Cajal later named "amacrine."[1]
  1. H. Uchiyama & W. K. Stell (2005) Association amacrine cells of Ramón y Cajal: Rediscovery and reinterpretation Visual Neuroscience 22: 881—891