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ArticleScientific reports2019

Measuring vision using innate behaviours in mice with intact and impaired retina function.

R Storchi, J Rodgers, M Gracey, F P Martial, J Wynne, S Ryan, C J Twining, T F Cootes, R Killick, R J Lucas

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Article in Scientific reports, 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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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

R StorchiFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. riccardo.storchi@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3656-7514
J RodgersFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
M GraceyFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
F P MartialFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
J WynneFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
S RyanDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
C J TwiningSchool of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
T F CootesFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
R KillickDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
R J LucasFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
University of Manchester · GBLancaster University · GBManchester Academic Health Science Centre · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N012992/1National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/P001505/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measuring vision in rodents is a critical step for understanding vision, improving models of human disease, and developing therapies. Established behavioural tests for perceptual vision, such as the visual water task, rely on learning. The learning process, while effective for sighted animals, can be laborious and stressful in animals with impaired vision, requiring long periods of training. Current tests that that do not require training are based on sub-conscious, reflex responses (e.g. optokinetic nystagmus) that don't require involvement of visual cortex and higher order thalamic nuclei. A potential alternative for measuring vision relies on using visually guided innate defensive responses, such as escape or freeze, that involve cortical and thalamic circuits. In this study we address this possibility in mice with intact and degenerate retinas. We first develop automatic methods to detect behavioural responses based on high dimensional tracking and changepoint detection of behavioural time series. Using those methods, we show that visually guided innate responses can be elicited using parametisable stimuli, and applied to describing the limits of visual acuity in healthy animals and discriminating degrees of visual dysfunction in mouse models of retinal degeneration.

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AnimalsElectroretinographyFemaleInstinctMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMovementPhotic StimulationRetinaRetinal DegenerationVision, OcularVisual AcuityVisual CortexVisual Perception

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PMID31316114
PMCPMC6637134
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