External limiting membrane

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External limiting membrane
Section of retina. (Membrana limitans externa labeled at right, third from the bottom.)
Plan of retinal neurons. (Membrana limitans externa labeled at left, second from the bottom.)
Latin	membrana limitans externa
Gray's	subject #225 1017
Dorlands/Elsevier	m_08/12522817

In the outer nuclear layer they form a network around the rod- and cone-fibrils, and unite to form the external limiting membrane (or outer limiting membrane) at the bases of the rods and cones.

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Rods and cones

[edit] External links

• Histology at BU 07902loa
• http://www.med.uiuc.edu/histo/small/atlas/objects/126.htm
• Slide at uc.edu
• http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/eye_ear/eye12.htm
• http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/EYE/RETINA.HTM

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v • d • e Sensory system – Visual system – Eye – Retina cells Photoreceptor cells (Cone cell, Rod cell) → (Horizontal cell) → Bipolar cell → (Amacrine cell) → Ganglion cell (Giant retinal ganglion cells, Photosensitive ganglion cell) Muller glia layers Inner limiting membrane – Nerve fiber layer – Ganglion cell layer – Inner plexiform layer – Inner nuclear layer Outer plexiform layer – Outer nuclear layer External limiting membrane – Layer of rods and cones – Retinal pigment epithelium