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  • Title: [Outer segments of the retinal photoreceptors of vertebrates: the ultrastructure, development and renewal of the disks].
    Author: Baburina EA, Beltadze NT.
    Journal: Ontogenez; 1983; 14(5):453-76. PubMed ID: 6358987.
    Abstract:
    The external photoreceptor segments in the retina of vertebrates have been studied already more than 100 years; the intensity of these studies increased markedly during the recent 20 years due to the introduction of autoradiography and electron microscopy. These methods allowed to study the ultrastructure of external segments of the rods and cones in many vertebrate species, its development in ontogenesis, the renewal of external segments and the dependence of renewal on the diurnal rhythm of illumination. All these data have never been summed up and discussed. This review provides a general picture of studies of different aspects of the ultrastructure of external segments; the models of formation of the external segments' discs proposed by several authors are considered; the necessity of continuation and widening of comparative studies of the ultrastructure of external photoreceptor segments in different vertebrates is founded. The most important conclusions concern the differences between the rods and the cones during renewal of the membranes discs of external segments.
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