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ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2017

Establishing Wiring Specificity in Visual System Circuits: From the Retina to the Brain.

Chi Zhang, Alex L Kolodkin, Rachel O Wong, Rebecca E James

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Review in Annual review of neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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  7. Differential Expression Analysis Identifies Candidate Synaptogenic Molecules for Wiring Direction-Selective Circuits in the Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  9. Semaphorin-6D and Plexin-A1 Act in a Non-Cell-Autonomous Manner to Position and Target Retinal Ganglion Cell Axons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  10. βII-Spectrin Is Required for Synaptic Positioning during Retinal Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  15. A cell-ECM mechanism for connecting the ipsilateral eye to the brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  19. Molecular mechanisms regulating synaptic specificity and retinal circuit formation.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Chi ZhangDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; email: zhangc29@uw.edu , wongr2@uw.edu.
Alex L KolodkinSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; email: kolodkin@jhmi.edu , rjames20@jhmi.edu.
Rachel O WongDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; email: zhangc29@uw.edu , wongr2@uw.edu.
Rebecca E JamesSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; email: kolodkin@jhmi.edu , rjames20@jhmi.edu.

Funding

The Impact of Oxytocin on the Neural Representation Social Stimuli P50MH100023 · NIMH · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI YOUNG, LARRY J · 2013 to 2022
$21.8M
INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENTR01EY010699 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 1994 to 2024
$8.6M
Circuit Assembly in the Vertebrate Retina-SupplementR01EY017101 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 2006 to 2020
$4.7M
In Vivo Analysis of the Developing Vertebrate RetinaR01EY014358 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 2003 to 2016
$4.3M
Wiring direction-selective circuits in the mouse retinaF32EY025114 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JAMES, REBECCA ELLEN · 2015 to 2017
$112k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNEI NIH HHS F32 EY025114NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010699NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014358NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017101NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH100023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The retina is a tremendously complex image processor, containing numerous cell types that form microcircuits encoding different aspects of the visual scene. Each microcircuit exhibits a distinct pattern of synaptic connectivity. The developmental mechanisms responsible for this patterning are just beginning to be revealed. Furthermore, signals processed by different retinal circuits are relayed to specific, often distinct, brain regions. Thus, much work has focused on understanding the mechanisms that wire retinal axonal projections to their appropriate central targets. Here, we highlight recently discovered cellular and molecular mechanisms that together shape stereotypic wiring patterns along the visual pathway, from within the retina to the brain. Although some mechanisms are common across circuits, others play unconventional and circuit-specific roles. Indeed, the highly organized connectivity of the visual system has greatly facilitated the discovery of novel mechanisms that establish precise synaptic connections within the nervous system.

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AnimalsBrainHumansNeuronsPhotic StimulationRetinaVisual Pathwaysconnectivityguidancelaminationretinaretinorecipient targeting

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PMID28460185
PMCPMC13321308

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