| Type | MGI:General | Description | retinal ganglion cells (RGC) have larger surface area and thick arbors some RGC axons follow aberrant trajectories, bifurcate within the retina or give rise to dendrite-like branches that ramify within the inner plexiform data a small percentage of RGC lack axons RGC cell body is more likely to reside in the inner nuclear layer (INL) than in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) the ratio of INL:GCL cell bodies is 178:105 compared with 9:147 for controls these misplaced RGC display morphological characteristics of glycinergic amacrine cells projections from the RGC are deficient to the olivary pretectal nucleus, the pretectal area and adjacent nucleus of the optic tract projections to the lateral and medial terminal nuclei are eliminated and the accessory optic tract is missing |
