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ArticleThe Journal of physiology2014

Synaptic noise is an information bottleneck in the inner retina during dynamic visual stimulation.

Michael A Freed, Zhiyin Liang

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Article in The Journal of physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Glycine Release Is Potentiated by cAMP via EPAC2 and CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  9. A Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cell Implements a Neuronal Computation That Maximizes the SNR of Its Postsynaptic Currents.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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2 authors.

Michael A FreedUniversity of Pennsylvania, 123 Anatomy-Chemistry Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA.  mafreed@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Zhiyin Liang

Funding

Scientific TransparencyP30EY001583 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI CLAIRE H MITCHELL · 1985 to 2026
$19.5M
MECHANISMS FOR TEMPORAL CODING BY RETINAL GANGLION CELLR01EY013333 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FREED, MICHAEL A · 2001 to 2016
$4.6M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001583NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In daylight, noise generated by cones determines the fidelity with which visual signals are initially encoded. Subsequent stages of visual processing require synapses from bipolar cells to ganglion cells, but whether these synapses generate a significant amount of noise was unknown. To characterize noise generated by these synapses, we recorded excitatory postsynaptic currents from mammalian retinal ganglion cells and subjected them to a computational noise analysis. The release of transmitter quanta at bipolar cell synapses contributed substantially to the noise variance found in the ganglion cell, causing a significant loss of fidelity from bipolar cell array to postsynaptic ganglion cell. Virtually all the remaining noise variance originated in the presynaptic circuit. Circuit noise had a frequency content similar to noise shared by ganglion cells but a very different frequency content from noise from bipolar cell synapses, indicating that these synapses constitute a source of independent noise not shared by ganglion cells. These findings contribute a picture of daylight retinal circuits where noise from cones and noise generated by synaptic transmission of cone signals significantly limit visual fidelity.

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Excitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsSignal-To-Noise RatioAnimalsGuinea PigsPhotic StimulationRetinal Ganglion Cells

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PMID24297850
PMCPMC3934706

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