Translations:J-RGC/34/en

Before the discovery of JAM-B cells, retinal ganglion cells lacked a labeling system based on molecular markers. Thus Retinal Ganglion Cells were categorized by nonselective factors or else treated as a single population. Thus RGCs were often either subject to subjective classification or inaccurate overgeneralization. Today, RGC subtypes in addition to JAM-B cells have been classified based on reporter genes. These subtypes include BD-, W3-, and W7-RGCs. These subsets can be identified using transgenic lines to mark them.