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The relatively simple, stratified nature of the retina and its spe-
fied use in the visual process has long made it an inviting tissue
to study both for its own sake and as a model for the more complex
processes of the brain. For these dual purposes, the retina can be
thought of as basically consisting of two functional pans. First,
the outer retina, comprised of the photoreceptor cells and
attendant pigment epithelium, serves to capture the photic energy
and convert it into a neurochemical response. Second, the inner
layers of the retina, mainly bipolar, amacrine and ganglion cells
(and their attendant Maller cells), function more clearly as a
typical part of the CNS, transmitting the photic signals to the
brain. Between the 8th and 12th of August 1988 more than seventy
scientists from allover the world gathered in Oldenburg (Federal
Republic of Gennany) for a meeting "The neurobiology of the inner
retina" which was devoted entirely to the neural mechanism of the
inner synaptic layer of the verte brate retina. The meeting
comprised twenty - three separate lectures and four specially
arranged discussion groups. In addition, a number of posters were
displayed and a period was allotted specifically for the discussion
of these posters. The articles contained in this book will serve as
a record of the papers delivered at the Oldenburg Meeting and
illustrate the advances made in trying to understand the importance
of the diversity of amacrine cell morphology and physiology in
retinal function.
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