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ArticleVision research2015

Modeling the response of ON and OFF retinal bipolar cells during electric stimulation.

P Werginz, H Benav, E Zrenner, F Rattay

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Article in Vision research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Inhibitory Circuits Can Restore OFF Pathway Responses in Retinal Prostheses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  13. Electronic Retinal Prostheses.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2023
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  14. Impact of Retinal Degeneration on Response of ON and OFF Cone Bipolar Cells to Electrical Stimulation.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2023
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  15. Implications of Neural Plasticity in Retinal Prosthesis.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022
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  20. A Computational Model Simulates Light-Evoked Responses in the Retinal Cone Pathway.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

P WerginzInstitute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
H BenavCenter for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
E ZrennerCenter for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
F RattayInstitute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: frank.rattay@tuwien.ac.at.
TU Wien · ATBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 27335
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal implants allowing blind people suffering from diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration to regain rudimentary vision are struggling with several obstacles. One of the main problems during external electric stimulation is the co-activation of the ON and OFF pathways which results in mutual impairment. In this study the response of ON and OFF cone retinal bipolar cells during extracellular electric stimulation from the subretinal space was examined. To gain deeper insight into the behavior of these cells sustained L-type and transient T-type calcium channels were integrated in the synaptic terminals of reconstructed 3D morphologies of ON and OFF cone bipolar cells. Intracellular calcium concentration in the synaptic regions of the model neurons was investigated as well since calcium influx is a crucial parameter for cell-to-cell activity between bipolar cells and retinal ganglion cells. It was shown that monophasic stimulation results in significant different calcium concentrations in the synaptic terminals of ON and OFF bipolar cells. Intracellular calcium increased to values up to fourfold higher in the OFF bipolar model neuron in comparison to the ON bipolar cell. Furthermore, geometric properties strongly influence the activation of bipolar cells. Monophasic, biphasic, single and repetitive pulses with similar lengths, amplitudes and polarities were applied to the two model neurons.

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AxonsBlindnessCalcium ChannelsElectric StimulationHEK293 CellsHumansMembrane PotentialsModels, BiologicalRetinal Bipolar CellsRetinitis PigmentosaCalcium ChannelsCompartment modelElectric stimulationRetinal bipolar cellsRetinal implant

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PMID25499837
PMCPMC4457536
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