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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Mouse Retinal Cell Atlas: Molecular Identification of over Sixty Amacrine Cell Types.

Wenjun Yan, Mallory A Laboulaye, Nicholas M Tran, Irene E Whitney, Inbal Benhar, Joshua R Sanes

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 203 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

203 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 346 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wenjun YanCenter for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID 0000-0003-3568-4265
Mallory A LaboulayeCenter for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
Nicholas M TranCenter for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-4213-3499
Irene E WhitneyCenter for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
Inbal BenharKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.ORCID 0000-0002-0239-2162
Joshua R SanesCenter for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 sanesj@mcb.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8926-8836
Harvard University · USBroad Institute · US

Funding

Synaptic Choices in the Retinotectal SystemR01NS029169 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SANES, JOSHUA R · 1991 to 2012
$6.0M
Comprehensive Classification Of Neuronal Subtypes By Single Cell TranscriptomicsU01MH105960 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI REGEV, AVIV, SANES, JOSHUA R · 2014 to 2016
$4.5M
Synaptic Choices in the Retinotectal SystemR37NS029169 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI SANES, JOSHUA R · 2013 to 2019
$4.0M
Determinants of type-dependent retinal ganglion cell resilience: potential targets for neuroprotection and axon regenerationR00EY029360 · NEI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI TRAN, NICHOLAS MINH ABELL · 2021 to 2023
$740k
Determinants of type-dependent retinal ganglion cell resilience: potential targets for neuroprotection and axon regenerationK99EY029360 · NEI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI TRAN, NICHOLAS MINH ABELL · 2018 to 2020
$268k
NEI NIH HHS K99 EY029360NEI NIH HHS R00 EY029360NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH105960NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS029169NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS029169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amacrine cells (ACs) are a diverse class of interneurons that modulate input from photoreceptors to retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), rendering each RGC type selectively sensitive to particular visual features, which are then relayed to the brain. While many AC types have been identified morphologically and physiologically, they have not been comprehensively classified or molecularly characterized. We used high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing to profile >32,000 ACs from mice of both sexes and applied computational methods to identify 63 AC types. We identified molecular markers for each type and used them to characterize the morphology of multiple types. We show that they include nearly all previously known AC types as well as many that had not been described. Consistent with previous studies, most of the AC types expressed markers for the canonical inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA or glycine, but several expressed neither or both. In addition, many expressed one or more neuropeptides, and two expressed glutamatergic markers. We also explored transcriptomic relationships among AC types and identified transcription factors expressed by individual or multiple closely related types. Noteworthy among these were

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PMID32457074
PMCPMC7329304
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