Inner plexiform layer

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Inner plexiform layer

Section of retina. (Inner plexiform layer labeled at right, fourth from the top.)

Plan of retinal neurons. (Inner plexiform layer labeled at left, fifth from the top.)
Gray's	subject #225 1016
Dorlands/Elsevier	l_05/12480925

The inner plexiform layer is made up of a dense reticulum of minute fibrils formed by the interlacement of the dendrites of the ganglion cells with those of the cells of the inner nuclear layer; within this reticulum a few branched spongioblasts are sometimes imbedded.^[1]

External links

Overview at utah.edu
Histology at Boston University 07902loa

References

↑ Nolte, John (2002). The Human Brain: An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy. 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 416-7. 0-323-01320-1.

v • d • e Sensory system - Visual system - Eye - Retina
cells	Photoreceptor cells (Cone cell, Rod cell) → (Horizontal cell) → Bipolar cell → (Amacrine cell) → Ganglion cell Giant retinal ganglion cells - Photosensitive ganglion cell - Muller glia
layers	Inner limiting membrane - Nerve fiber layer - Ganglion cell layer - Inner plexiform layer - Inner nuclear layer - Outer plexiform layer - Outer nuclear layer - External limiting membrane - Layer of rods and cones - Retinal pigment epithelium