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The confusion comes with those games whose names emerged from the equipment used ( paddleball ) or from the peculiarities of the court construction ( platform tennis ). A tangential problem relates to certain ancient racquet sports approaching obsolescence ( court tennis, racquets, squash tennis , for example) whose original clear-cut identity has become hazy owing to recently created sports, such as racquetball and platform tennis , which share some of the characteristics of the older games.
Amongst the best-studied cells of the fly visual system are the large lobula plate tangential cells (LPTCs), which, due to their large diameter axons (about 8-10 microns) are relatively easy to record from intracellularly.
Layer 10 was somewhat weaker stained, which might be due to a lower cell density in this layer compared to layers 8 and 9. Layer 10 contains the dendritic arborizations of the T4 cells, which are presumed to represent input elements to the lobula plate tangential cells [ 14].
But if you pay close attention, you begin to notice that Bush's answers have a more than ordinarily tangential relationship to the questions he is asked.
Here, the tangential cells have been shown physiologically to possess at least two different transmitter receptors on their dendrite: a cholinergic receptor with a typical nicotinic pharmacological profile, and a γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor [ 23, 24].