Some reflective properties of the tapetum lucidum of the cat's eye

1. Observation of the fresh, isolated tapetum of the cat with a low‐power microscope showed it to be composed of multilayer reflectors (domains) each being less than 6 μm in diameter. It is concluded that these are subdivisions of the intracellular bundles of rodlets seen in electron micrographs.

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