The inner plexiform layer is an area of the
retina
The retina (; or retinas) is the innermost, photosensitivity, light-sensitive layer of tissue (biology), tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some Mollusca, molluscs. The optics of the eye create a focus (optics), focused two-dimensional ...
that is made up of a dense reticulum of
fibrils
Fibrils () are structural biological materials found in nearly all living organisms. Not to be confused with fibers or filaments, fibrils tend to have diameters ranging from 10 to 100 nanometers (whereas fibers are micro to milli-scale stru ...
formed by interlaced
dendrites
A dendrite (from Greek δένδρον ''déndron'', "tree") or dendron is a branched cytoplasmic process that extends from a nerve cell that propagates the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma ...
of
retinal ganglion cells and cells of the
inner nuclear layer. Within this reticulum a few branched
spongioblasts are sometimes embedded.
References
External links
Overview at utah.edu
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Human eye anatomy
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