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“These observations indicate that somatostatin influences visual information processing in the retina 1 ) by acting presynaptically on rod bipolar cell axon terminals and b) by influencing the activity of sparsely occurring amacrine cells.”
The Journal of comparative neurology • 1998 | View Paper
“These results reveal a role of SST interneurons in restricting retinally driven activity in the visual cortex, which may contribute to the refinement of retinotopy.”