Phenotype: amacrine cell differentiation decreased process quality, abnormal
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Name: amacrine cell differentiation
Synonyms: amacrine neuron differentiation
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an amacrine cell, an interneuron generated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) of the vertebrate retina. Amacrine cells integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer. Amacrine cells lack large axons.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0035881]    QuickGO    AmiGO
Name: decreased process quality
Synonyms:
Definition: A quality of a process that has a value that is decreased compared to normal or average.
Ontology: Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0002302]