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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

Glutamate Activity Regulates and Dendritic Development of J-RGCs.

Eerik Elias, Ning Yang, Ping Wang, Ning Tian

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cholinergic Waves Have a Modest Influence on the Transcriptome of Retinal Ganglion Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eerik EliasDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
Ning YangDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
Ping WangDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
Ning TianDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
University of Utah · USWuhan University · CN

Funding

University of Utah, Core Vision Research GrantP30EY014800 · NEI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Behrad Noudoost · 2005 to 2026
$14.6M
DEVELOPMENT OF SYNAPTIC PATHWAYS IN RETINAR01EY012345 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TIAN, NING · 1999 to 2015
$5.1M
Mechanisms underlying CD3ζ guided assembly of retinal circuitsR01EY031699 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI TIAN, NING · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
Immune responses in traumatic RGC deathI01BX002412 · VA · VA SALT LAKE CITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM · PI TIAN, NING · 2016 to 2024
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BLRD VA I01 BX002412NEI NIH HHS P30 EY014800NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012345NEI NIH HHS R01 EY031699
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have a wide variety of dendritic architectures, which are critical for the formation of their function-specific synaptic circuitry. The developmental regulation of the dendrites of RGCs is thought to be subtype dependent. The purpose of this study is to characterize the dendritic development of a genetically identified RGC subtype, JamB RGCs (J-RGCs), and the roles of glutamate receptor activity on the dendritic development of these cells. We show that the dendrites of J-RGCs are strictly ramified in the outer portion of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) of the retina at the age of postnatal day 8 (P8), mimicking the ramification pattern of adults. However, several other important features of dendrites undergo substantial developmental refinement after P8. From P8 to P13, the dendritic development of J-RGCs is characterized by a dramatic increase of dendritic length and the size of the dendritic field. After eye opening, the dendritic development of J-RGCs is characterized by a tremendous decrease of the number of dendritic protrusions (spine-like structures) and a consolidation of the size of the dendritic field. To determine whether the dendritic development of J-RGCs is regulated by glutamatergic activity, we conditionally knocked out the expression of an obligatory subunit of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), NR1 (Grin1), in J-RGCs. We found that J-RGCs with the NMDAR mutation have decreased dendrite outgrowth and dendritic field expansion but increased number of dendritic protrusions before eye opening. To determine if visual experience regulates the development of J-RGC dendrites, we raised the mice in complete darkness after birth. Light deprivation prevented the decrease in the number of dendritic protrusions and the consolidation of the dendritic field of wild type (WT) mice after eye opening. However, light deprivation has no additional effect on the number of dendritic protrusions or the size of the dendritic field of J-RGCs with NMDAR mutation. Together, these results revealed the roles of light stimulation and NMDAR activity on the dendritic development of J-RGCs.

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activity-dependent plasticitydendritic morphologydevelopmentglutamate activitylight deprivationNMDARretinal ganglion cell

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