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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2013

Light adaptation alters the source of inhibition to the mouse retinal OFF pathway.

Reece E Mazade, Erika D Eggers

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2013. 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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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Contributions of Rod and Cone Pathways to Retinal Direction Selectivity Through Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  10. Low concentrations of ethanol but not of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) impair reciprocal retinal signal transduction.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2015
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2 authors.

Reece E MazadeDepartment of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Erika D Eggers

Funding

GRADUATE TRAINING IN SYSTEMS AND INTERGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGYT32GM008400 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI HOYER, PATRICIA B · 1991 to 2011
$2.3M
GABAergic and Glycinergic Inhibition in the Inner RetinaR00EY018131 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI EGGERS, ERIKA D. · 2009 to 2011
$728k
GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition in the inner retinaK99EY018131 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI EGGERS, ERIKA D. · 2008 to 2008
$86k
NEI NIH HHS EY-018131NEI NIH HHS R00 EY018131NIGMS NIH HHS 5T32GM008400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory systems must avoid saturation to encode a wide range of stimulus intensities. One way the retina accomplishes this is by using both dim-light-sensing rod and bright-light-sensing cone photoreceptor circuits. OFF cone bipolar cells are a key point in this process, as they receive both excitatory input from cones and inhibitory input from AII amacrine cells via the rod pathway. However, in addition to AII amacrine cell input, other inhibitory inputs from cone pathways also modulate OFF cone bipolar cell light signals. It is unknown how these inhibitory inputs to OFF cone bipolar cells change when switching between rod and cone pathways or whether all OFF cone bipolar cells receive rod pathway input. We found that one group of OFF cone bipolar cells (types 1, 2, and 4) receive rod-mediated inhibitory inputs that likely come from the rod-AII amacrine cell pathway, while another group of OFF cone bipolar cells (type 3) do not. In both cases, dark-adapted rod-dominant light responses showed a significant contribution of glycinergic inhibition, which decreased with light adaptation and was, surprisingly, compensated by an increase in GABAergic inhibition. As GABAergic input has distinct timing and spatial spread from glycinergic input, a shift from glycinergic to GABAergic inhibition could significantly alter OFF cone bipolar cell signaling to downstream OFF ganglion cells. Larger GABAergic input could reflect an adjustment of OFF bipolar cell spatial inhibition, which may be one mechanism that contributes to retinal spatial sensitivity in the light.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalInhibitory Postsynaptic PotentialsLightAction PotentialsAnimalsGABA AgentsGlycine AgentsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRetinal NeuronsVisual PathwaysGABA AgentsGlycine Agentsamacrine cellbipolar cellglycineγ-aminobutyric acid

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PMID23926034
PMCPMC3841932

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