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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2017

Method to remove photoreceptors from whole mount retina in vitro.

Steven T Walston, Yao-Chuan Chang, James D Weiland, Robert H Chow

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 49% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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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  3. Modeling ON Cone Bipolar Cells for Electrical Stimulation.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 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven T WalstonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Yao-Chuan ChangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
James D WeilandDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Robert H ChowDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; rchow@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patch clamp recordings of neurons in the inner nuclear layer of the retina are difficult to conduct in a whole mount retina preparation because surrounding neurons block the path of the patch pipette. Vertical slice preparations or dissociated retinal cells provide access to bipolar cells at the cost of severing the lateral connection between neurons. We have developed a technique to remove photoreceptors from the rodent retina that exposes inner nuclear layer neurons, allowing access for patch clamp recording. Repeated application to and removal of filter paper from the photoreceptor side of an isolated retina effectively and efficiently removes photoreceptor cells and, in degenerate retina, hypertrophied Müller cell end feet. Live-dead assays applied to neurons remaining after photoreceptor removal demonstrated mostly viable cells. Patch clamp recordings from bipolar cells reveal responses similar to those recorded in traditional slice and dissociated cell preparations. An advantage of the photoreceptor peel technique is that it exposes inner retinal neurons in a whole mount retina preparation for investigation of signal processing. A disadvantage is that photoreceptor removal alters input to remaining retinal neurons. The technique may be useful for investigations of extracellular electrical stimulation, photoreceptor DNA analysis, and nonpharmacological removal of light input.

Indexed as

Photoreceptor CellsRetinaTissue Culture TechniquesAnimalsCell DeathCell SurvivalGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMembrane PotentialsMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMicrodissectionMicroscopy, FluorescencePatch-Clamp Techniquesenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent Proteinsbipolar cellpatch clampphotoreceptor removalretina whole mount

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PMID28855296
PMCPMC5675901
OpenAlexW2751143979

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