parasol ganglion cell of retina

Ontology Term

parasol ganglion cell of retinaCL:4023189

Synonyms

Terms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.

M cell, M ganglion cell

Category

Class of which the cell type is a subclass.

retinal ganglion cellCL:0000740

Ontology Assessment

Disagreements with any aspect of the Cell Ontology.

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Marker Gene Evidence

Gene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.

FABP4, CHRNA2

Canonical Marker Genes

unknown

Rationale

Parasol RGC has two types, i.e., OFF parasol RGC (by FABP4) and ON parasol RGC (by CHRNA2).

Inherited from cell_type

Set of Labels Description

This is the ingested cell type for the atlas, based on scRNA-seq datasets.

Annotation Method

manual