ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2013
Functional allocation of synaptic contacts in microcircuits from rods via rod bipolar to AII amacrine cells in the mouse retina.
Article in The Journal of comparative neurology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impact of Aii Amacrine Cell Rewiring in a Pathoconnectome-Based Computational Model of Early Retinal Degeneration.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Retinal Cx36 gap junctions in the inner and outer plexiform layers differentially control visual thresholds.iScience · 2026Article
- A mechanism for pathological oscillations in mouse retinal ganglion cells in a model of night blindness.The Journal of general physiology · 2025Article
- The architecture of invaginating rod synapses slows glutamate diffusion and shapes synaptic responses.The Journal of general physiology · 2025Article
- Efficient in vivo labeling of endogenous proteins with SMART delineates retina cellular and synaptic organization.Nature communications · 2025Article
- SMORE: spatial motifs reveal patterns in cellular architecture of complex tissues.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Spatial motifs reveal patterns in cellular architecture of complex tissues.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Subcellular pathways through VGluT3-expressing mouse amacrine cells provide locally tuned object-motion-selective signals in the retina.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Functional maturation of the rod bipolar to AII-amacrine cell ribbon synapse in the mouse retina.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Regional variation in the organization and connectivity of the first synapse in the primate night vision pathway.iScience · 2023Article
- Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina.Research square · 2023Article
- Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Cell numbers, cell ratios, and developmental plasticity in the rod pathway of the mouse retina.Journal of anatomy · 2023Review
- Electrical synapses for a pooling layer of the convolutional neural network in retinas.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors on AII amacrine cells mediate sustained signaling in the On-pathway of the primate retina.Cell reports · 2022Article
- All-optical inter-layers functional connectivity investigation in the mouse retina.Cell reports methods · 2022Article
- Multiple Invagination Patterns and Synaptic Efficacy in Primate and Mouse Rod Synaptic Terminals.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022Article
- Dendritic Morphology of an Inhibitory Retinal Interneuron Enables Simultaneous Local and Global Synaptic Integration.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Dendro-somatic synaptic inputs to ganglion cells contradict receptive field and connectivity conventions in the mammalian retina.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Retinal microcircuits for night vision at the absolute threshold are required to relay a single-photon rod signal reliably to ganglion cells via rod bipolar (RB) cells and AII amacrine cells. To assess the noise reduction of intercellular signal transmission in this rod-specific pathway, we quantified its synaptic connectivity by 3D reconstruction of a series of electron micrographs. In most cases (94%), each rod made ribbon synaptic contacts onto two adjacent RB cells. Conversely, each RB cell was contacted by 25 rods. Each RB axon terminal contacted four or five AII amacrine cells via 53 ribbon synapses. Thus, the signal from one rod may be represented as 106 replicates at two RB axons. Moreover, the two adjacent RB cells contacted two to four AII amacrine cells in common, where the signals relayed by two RB cells were reunited. In more detail, over 50% of each RB output was directed predominantly to a single, preferred AII amacrine cell, although each RB cell also separately contacted another one to three AII amacrine cells. Most of the replicate signals at two RB axons were collected on a few AII amacrine cells via reunions, dominant connections, and electrical coupling by AII-AII gap junctions. Thus the original signal may be reliably represented by signal amplification with focal accumulation without gathering unnecessary noise from a wide surrounding area. This allocation of RB-AII synaptic contacts may serve as the structural basis for the physiological properties of the AII single-photon response that include high amplification, local adaptation, and regenerative acceleration.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.