Vision - Retina Development

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Retina development (stage 22)

Introduction

Historic Embryology - Vision
Historic Embryology: 1906 Eye Embryology \| 1907 Development Atlas \| 1912 Eye Development \| 1912 Nasolacrimal Duct \| 1917 Extraocular Muscle \| 1918 Grays Anatomy \| 1921 Eye Development \| 1922 Optic Primordia \| 1925 Eyeball and optic nerve \| 1925 Iris \| 1927 Oculomotor \| 1928 Human Retina \| 1928 Retina \| 1928 Hyaloid Canal \| Historic Disclaimer

Adult Retina

Adult Human Retina histology^[1]

Vertebrates have ten identifiable layers formed from neurons, their processes (nerve fibers), membranes, photoreceptors and pigmented cells. Light must pass through nearly all these layers to the photoreceptors.

Inner limiting membrane - Müller cell footplates.
Nerve fiber layer - retinal ganglion axons eventually the optic nerve.
Ganglion cell layer - neuronal cell bodies of retinal ganglion cells, their axons form the nerve fiber layer and eventually the optic nerve.
Inner plexiform layer - another layer of neuronal processes.
Inner nuclear layer - neuronal cell bodies
Outer plexiform layer - another layer of neuronal processes.
Outer nuclear layer - neuronal cell bodies
External limiting membrane - layer separating inner segment portions of photoreceptors from their cell nuclei.
Photoreceptor layer - rods and cones that convert light into signals.
Retinal pigment epithelium.