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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2004

The classical receptive field surround of primate parasol ganglion cells is mediated primarily by a non-GABAergic pathway.

Matthew J McMahon, Orin S Packer, Dennis M Dacey

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Origin and functional impact of early nonlinearities in primate retina.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  4. Diversity of Ganglion Cell Responses to Saccade-Like Image Shifts in the Primate Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  6. Synchronous inhibitory pathways create both efficiency and diversity in the retina.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  9. Connectomic Identification and Three-Dimensional Color Tuning of S-OFF Midget Ganglion Cells in the Primate Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  12. Nonselective Wiring Accounts for Red-Green Opponency in Midget Ganglion Cells of the Primate Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  18. The Synaptic and Morphological Basis of Orientation Selectivity in a Polyaxonal Amacrine Cell of the Rabbit Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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  20. GABAergic neurotransmission and retinal ganglion cell function.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew J McMahonDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Orin S Packer
Dennis M Dacey
University of Washington · US

Funding

YILMA SIV VACCINIA VACCINE TRIALP51RR000166 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HU, SHIU-LOK · 1985 to 2011
$161.1M
Vision Research CoreP30EY001730 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MAUREEN E NEITZ · 1985 to 2026
$23.5M
SYNAPTIC INPUTS TO RETINAL GANGLION CELLSR01EY006678 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DACEY, DENNIS MICHAEL · 1986 to 2019
$8.2M
VENOM NEUTRALIZATIONS06GM008107 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE · PI STANKO, RANDY L · 1989 to 2010
$5.1M
TOPOGRAPHY OF PRIMATE CONE CLASSESR01EY009625 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DACEY, DENNIS MICHAEL · 1992 to 2002
$1.0M
NCRR NIH HHS P51 RR000166NCRR NIH HHS RR00166NEI NIH HHS EY01730NEI NIH HHS EY06678NEI NIH HHS EY09625NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001730NEI NIH HHS R01 EY006678NEI NIH HHS R01 EY009625NIGMS NIH HHS GM08107NIGMS NIH HHS S06 GM008107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the center-surround receptive field is a fundamental property of retinal ganglion cells, the circuitry that mediates surround inhibition remains controversial. We examined the contribution of horizontal cells and amacrine cells to the surround of parasol ganglion cells of macaque and baboon retina by measuring receptive field structure before and during the application of drugs that have been shown previously to affect surrounds in a range of mammalian and nonmammalian species. Carbenoxolone and cobalt, thought to attenuate feedback from horizontal cells to cones, severely reduced the surround. Tetrodotoxin, which blocks sodium spiking in amacrine cells, and picrotoxin, which blocks the inhibitory action of GABA, only slightly reduced the surround. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that the surrounds of light-adapted parasol ganglion cells are generated primarily by non-GABAergic horizontal cell feedback in the outer retina, with a small contribution from GABAergic amacrine cells of the inner retina.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnimalsCarbenoxoloneCobaltGABA Antagonistsgamma-Aminobutyric AcidGeniculate BodiesIn Vitro TechniquesMacaca fascicularisMacaca nemestrinaPapioPhotic StimulationPicrotoxinPrimatesRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsCarbenoxoloneCobaltGABA Antagonistsgamma-Aminobutyric AcidPicrotoxinSodium Channel Blockers

Identifiers

PMID15084653
PMCPMC6729348
OpenAlexW2120123765

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