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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cells contribute to plasticity in retinal wave circuits.

Lowry A Kirkby, Marla B Feller

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Prolonged Light Exposure Induces Long-Lasting Retinal Wave Plasticity via Retrograde Melanopsin-Dopamine Signaling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  9. The Retinal Basis of Light Aversion in Neonatal Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  14. Photoreceptive Ganglion Cells Drive Circuits for Local Inhibition in the Mouse Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lowry A KirkbyBiophysics Graduate Group and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Marla B Feller

Funding

The Function of Neural Activity in Developing RetinaR01EY013528 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Marla Feller · 2002 to 2026
$8.1M
NEI NIH HHS EY013528NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013528
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Correlated spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system is robust to perturbations in the circuits that generate it, suggesting that mechanisms exist to ensure its maintenance. We examine this phenomenon in the developing retina, where blockade of cholinergic circuits that mediate retinal waves during the first postnatal week leads to the generation of "recovered" waves through a distinct, gap junction-mediated circuit. Unlike cholinergic waves, these recovered waves were modulated by dopaminergic and glutamatergic signaling, and required the presence of the gap junction protein connexin 36. Moreover, in contrast to cholinergic waves, recovered waves were stimulated by ambient light via activation of melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. The involvement of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in this reconfiguration of wave-generating circuits offers an avenue of retinal circuit plasticity during development that was previously unknown.

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AnimalsConnexin 26ConnexinsElectrophysiological PhenomenaGap Junction delta-2 ProteinGap JunctionsLight Signal TransductionMelanopsinMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMicroscopy, InterferenceRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsRod OpsinsSynaptic TransmissionConnexin 26ConnexinsGap Junction delta-2 ProteinMelanopsinRod Opsinsdegenerate circuitdopamineretinal development

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PMID23821744
PMCPMC3718101

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