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. 2015 Oct 6;9:122. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00122

Table 1.

Positional configurations of the basal synaptic contacts with cone pedicles for the five types of OFF bipolar cells.

(A) The present study^a							(B) Other researcher's study
Bipolar cell type	TA	NTA	Total	TA	NTA		Bipolar cell type	TA	NTA
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	%	%			%	%
FMB	33.0 ± 2.2	2.6 ± 1.1	35.6 ± 1.5	93	7		FMB^b	79	21
DB1	16.8 ± 3.3	8.2 ± 3.3	25.0 ± 2.2	67	33		DB1^b	59	41
DB2	20.4 ± 2.9	47.0 ± 3.9	67.4 ± 5.6	30	70		DB2^b	50	50
DB3a	51.6 ± 4.0	12.0 ± 4.4	63.6 ± 5.7	81	19		DB2^c	43	57
DB3b	18.4 ± 6.9	67.6 ± 4.7	86.0 ± 9.7	21	79		DB3^b	75	25

^a

Number of samples: n = 5 for all cases. M/L-cone-connected FMB cells were chosen for comparison with DB cells.

^b

Data of macaque monkey (Macaca mulatta) (Hopkins and Boycott, 1997).

^c

Data of velvet monkey (Boycott and Hopkins, 1993).

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