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IT is well known that axons of the retinal ganglionic cells are characterized by a strictly radial direction. They converge in the optic papilla similarly to the spokes of the wheel and make their further course by the way of the optic nerve and its chiasma.
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VINNIKOV, J. Transformations of the Retinal Ganglionic Cells in Tissue Cultures. Nature 158, 377 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158377a0
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