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ReviewPflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology2021

Transmission at rod and cone ribbon synapses in the retina.

Wallace B Thoreson

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Review in Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Photoreceptor-Like Signal Transduction Between Polymer-Based Protocells.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  18. The Structural and Functional Integrity of Rod Photoreceptor Ribbon Synapses Depends on Redundant Actions of Dynamins 1 and 3.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wallace B ThoresonTruhlsen Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA. wbthores@unmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7104-042X
University of Nebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

Regulation of Photoreceptor NeurotransmisssionR01EY010542 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI KARATEKIN, ERDEM, THORESON, WALLACE B · 2001 to 2023
$7.7M
Synaptic transmission at retinal ribbon synapsesR01EY032396 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI THORESON, WALLACE B, ZENISEK, DAVID PAUL · 2021 to 2024
$1.9M
CHLORIDE REGULATION OF PHOTORECEPTOR NEUROTRANSMISSIONR29EY010542 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI THORESON, WALLACE B · 1996 to 2000
$105k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010542NEI NIH HHS R01 EY032396NEI NIH HHS R29 EY010542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light-evoked voltage responses of rod and cone photoreceptor cells in the vertebrate retina must be converted to a train of synaptic vesicle release events for transmission to downstream neurons. This review discusses the processes, proteins, and structures that shape this critical early step in vision, focusing on studies from salamander retina with comparisons to other experimental animals. Many mechanisms are conserved across species. In cones, glutamate release is confined to ribbon release sites although rods are also capable of release at non-ribbon sites. The role of non-ribbon release in rods remains unclear. Release from synaptic ribbons in rods and cones involves at least three vesicle pools: a readily releasable pool (RRP) matching the number of membrane-associated vesicles along the ribbon base, a ribbon reserve pool matching the number of additional vesicles on the ribbon, and an enormous cytoplasmic reserve. Vesicle release increases in parallel with Ca

Indexed as

AnimalsCalcium ChannelsHumansPhotic StimulationRetinaRetinal Cone Photoreceptor CellsRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionCalcium ChannelsExocytosisPhotoreceptor cellRibbon synapseVertebrate retinaVision

Identifiers

PMID33779813
PMCPMC8680117
OpenAlexW3150116164

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Registered trials

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