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ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2019

Synaptogenesis and synaptic protein localization in the postnatal development of rod bipolar cell dendrites in mouse retina.

Ivan A Anastassov, Weiwei Wang, Felice A Dunn

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Article in The Journal of comparative neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Protocadherin 9 Promotes Cell Survival of Different Bipolar Cell Types in the Developing Mouse Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. The Healthy and Diseased Retina Seen through Neuron-Glia Interactions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  12. Dendrite morphogenesis from birth to adulthood.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ivan A AnastassovDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0002-0653-0446
Weiwei WangDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0003-3518-9328
Felice A DunnDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0003-0784-0259
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Rapid-Prototyping and Design CoreP30EY002162 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LAKKARAJU, APARNA · 1985 to 2024
$16.8M
Circuit Assembly in the Vertebrate Retina-SupplementR01EY017101 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 2006 to 2020
$4.7M
Structure, function, and adaptability of parallel pathways in mammalian retinaR00EY022910 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DUNN, FELICE A · 2014 to 2016
$742k
Characterization of TRPM1 isoforms and binding partners in ON bipolar cellsF32EY024815 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANASTASSOV, IVAN · 2014 to 2016
$164k
NEI NIH HHS F32 EY024815NEI NIH HHS P30 EY002162NEI NIH HHS R00 EY022910NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal responses to photons originate in rod photoreceptors and are transmitted to the ganglion cell output of the retina through the primary rod bipolar pathway. At the first synapse of this pathway, input from multiple rods is pooled into individual rod bipolar cells. This architecture is called convergence. Convergence serves to improve sensitivity of rod vision when photons are sparse. Establishment of convergence depends on the development of a proper complement of dendritic tips and transduction proteins in rod bipolar cells. How the dendrites of rod bipolar cells develop and contact the appropriate number of rods is unknown. To answer this question we visualized individual rod bipolar cells in mouse retina during postnatal development and quantified the number of dendritic tips, as well as the expression of transduction proteins within dendrites. Our findings show that the number of dendritic tips in rod bipolar cells increases monotonically during development. The number of tips at P21, P30, and P82 exceeds the previously reported rod convergence ratios, and the majority of these tips are proximal to a presynaptic rod release site, suggesting more rods provide input to a rod bipolar cell. We also show that dendritic transduction cascade members mGluR6 and TRPM1 appear in tips with different timelines. These finding suggest that (a) rod bipolar cell dendrites elaborate without pruning during development, (b) the convergence ratio between rods and rod bipolar cells may be higher than previously reported, and (c) mGluR6 and TRPM1 are trafficked independently during development.

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicNeurogenesisProtein TransportReceptors, Metabotropic GlutamateRetinaRetinal Bipolar CellsRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsSynapsesTRPM Cation Channelsmetabotropic glutamate receptor 6Receptors, Metabotropic GlutamateTRPM Cation Channelsconvergenceglutamate receptorsretinarod bipolar cellsrod photoreceptorsRRID:AB_2261205RRID:SCR_002285RRID:SCR_014237RRID:SCR_014305TRPM1vision

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PMID28547795
PMCPMC5745277
OpenAlexW2619161603

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