[Text def] Revise textual definition of Retinal Ganglion Cell A into Alpha retinal ganglion cell

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CL term CL_0004117

Revised cell label alpha retinal ganglion cell

Suggested revision of textual definition A large-bodied retinal projection neuron with wide monostratified dendritic arbors in defined IPL strata, high neurofilament and osteopontin expression, and a thick, fast-conducting axon. It shows short-latency, non–direction-selective responses with large receptive fields and a distinctive rapid action potential waveform. In mammals it forms about five percent of RGCs and includes four conserved ON and OFF sustained and transient subtypes

PMID:28753612

exact synonym: Retinal ganglion cell A PMID:12209831

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