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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2011

Light-evoked synaptic activity of retinal ganglion and amacrine cells is regulated in developing mouse retina.

Quanhua He, Ping Wang, Ning Tian

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 authors.

Quanhua HeDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ping Wang
Ning Tian

Funding

University of Utah, Core Vision Research GrantP30EY014800 · NEI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI PAUL STEVEN BERNSTEIN · 2005 to 2026
$14.6M
Yale Core Grant For Vision ResearchP30EY000785 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TIAN, NING · 1985 to 2010
$5.8M
DEVELOPMENT OF SYNAPTIC PATHWAYS IN RETINAR01EY012345 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TIAN, NING · 1999 to 2015
$5.1M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY000785NEI NIH HHS P30 EY014800NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012345NEI NIH HHS R01EY012345
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have shown a continued maturation of visual responsiveness and synaptic activity of retina after eye opening, including the size of receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), light-evoked synaptic output of RGCs, bipolar cell spontaneous synaptic inputs to RGCs, and the synaptic connections between RGCs and ON and OFF bipolar cells. Light deprivation retarded some of these age-dependent changes. However, many other functional and morphological features of RGCs are not sensitive to visual experience. To determine whether light-evoked synaptic responses of RGCs undergo developmental change, we directly examined the light-evoked synaptic inputs from ON and OFF synaptic pathways to RGCs in developing retinas, and found that both light-evoked excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents decreased, but not increased, with age. We also examined the light-evoked synaptic inputs from ON and OFF synaptic pathways to amacrine cells in developing retinas and found that the light-evoked synaptic input of amacrine cells is also downregulated in developing mouse retina. Different from the developmental changes of RGC spontaneous synaptic activity, dark rearing has little effect on the developmental changes of light-evoked synaptic activity of both RGCs and amacrine cells. Therefore, we concluded that the synaptic mechanisms mediating spontaneous and light-evoked synaptic activity of RGCs and amacrine cells are likely to be different.

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LightAmacrine CellsAnimalsExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsInhibitory Postsynaptic PotentialsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPatch-Clamp TechniquesPhotic StimulationRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsSynapsesSynaptic Transmission

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PMCPMC3070459

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