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ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2019

Sub-topographic maps for regionally enhanced analysis of visual space in the mouse retina.

Rana N El-Danaf, Andrew D Huberman

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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 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A complete spatial map of mouse retinal ganglion cells reveals density and gene expression specializations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Impact of Photoreceptor Loss on Retinal Circuitry.Annual review of vision science · 2021
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  16. Molecular Fingerprinting of On-Off Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells Across Species and Relevance to Primate Visual Circuits.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rana N El-DanafDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Andrew D HubermanDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.ORCID 0000-0003-3279-5963
Neurosciences Institute · USStanford Medicine · US

Funding

Stanford Vision Research CoreP30EY026877 · NEI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Jeffrey L Goldberg · 2017 to 2026
$8.0M
Vertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behaviorU01NS090562 · NINDS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI EULER, THOMAS, HUBERMAN, ANDREW D · 2014 to 2016
$3.6M
Molecular and functional regeneration of the accessory optic pathwayR01EY027713 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HUBERMAN, ANDREW D, KOLODKIN, ALEX L · 2017 to 2020
$2.4M
Development of retinofugal parallel pathwaysR01EY022157 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HUBERMAN, ANDREW D · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
Promoting optic nerve and retinofugal pathway regenerationR01EY026100 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HUBERMAN, ANDREW D · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY026877NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022157NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026100NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027713NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many species, neurons are unevenly distributed across the retina, leading to nonuniform analysis of specific visual features at certain locations in visual space. In recent years, the mouse has emerged as a premiere model for probing visual system function, development, and disease. Thus, achieving a detailed understanding of mouse visual circuit architecture is of paramount importance. The general belief is that mice possess a relatively even topographic distribution of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs)-the output neurons of the eye. However, mouse RGCs include ∼30 subtypes; each responds best to a specific feature in the visual scene and conveys that information to central targets. Given the crucial role of RGCs and the prominence of the mouse as a model, we asked how different RGC subtypes are distributed across the retina. We targeted and filled individual fluorescently tagged RGC subtypes from across the retinal surface and evaluated the dendritic arbor extent and soma size of each cell according to its specific retinotopic position. Three prominent RGC subtypes: On-Off direction selective RGCs, object-motion-sensitive RGCs, and a specialized subclass of nonimage-forming RGCs each had marked topographic variations in their dendritic arbor sizes. Moreover, the pattern of variation was distinct for each RGC subtype. Thus, there is increasing evidence that the mouse retina encodes visual space in a region-specific manner. As a consequence, some visual features are sampled far more densely at certain retinal locations than others. These findings have implications for central visual processing, perception, and behavior in this prominent model species.

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