Opsin mRNA in photoreceptor cells

Photoreceptors, illustration. This series, called 'Histograms', consists of small, playful drawings based on histological slides, and are brightly colored, illustrative and cartoon-like. They are scaled to recall the view through a microscope; the view to a slide specimen covered by a thin square glass plate. 

Beginnings of retinal scarring

Retina showing rods and cones

Zebrafish eye development

Cones in the retina - 3D image

Cone rich area of the retina - 3D image

Retina showing rods and cones - transverse

Section through the fovea

Retina showing rod cells.

Scarring the a detached retina

Visual system in Drosophila larval brain

Connections in the visual system

Mueller glial cells in the retina

Retinal ganglion cell

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