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Anat Embryol (Berl)
1991 Jan 01;1841:33-45. doi: 10.1007/bf01744259.
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Morphology and retinal distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactive amacrine cells in the retina of developing Xenopus laevis.
Zhu BS
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Straznicky C
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The development of neurons immunoreactive to tyrosine hydroxylase (TH-IR) in the retina of Xenopus laevis was investigated from stage 53 tadpoles to adult, by using an antibody against tyrosine hydroxylase. At all developmental stages, most of the immunoreactive somata were located in the inner nuclear layer, and a few in the ganglion cell layer. Immunoreactive processes arborized in the scleral and vitreal sublaminae of the inner plexiform layer, indicating that these cells were bistratified amacrine cells. However, occasionally a few immunoreactive processes were observed projecting to the outer plexiform layer, suggesting the presence of TH-IR interplexiform cells. The number of immunoreactive amacrine cells in the inner nuclear layer per retina increased from 204 at stage 53 tadpole to 735 in adult, while the number of immunoreactive amacrine cells in the ganglion cell layer did not change significantly over the same period. Retinal area increased from 1.95 mm2 at stage 53 to 23.40 mm2 in the adult, and correspondingly cell density in the inner nuclear layer decreased from 104/mm2 to 31/mm2. At all stages there was an increasing density towards the ciliary margin, but this gradient decreased with age. The soma size of immunoreactive amacrine cells increased with age, and was consistently larger in the central than in the peripheral retina. Dendritic field size was estimated to increase 13-fold, from stage 53 to adult. This study shows that tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactive amacrine cells are generated continuously throughout life, that after metamorphosis the retina grows more by stretching than by cell generation at the ciliary margin, and that the increase of dendritic field size is proportional to the increase in retinal surface area.
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