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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2021

Rod and Cone Connections With Bipolar Cells in the Rabbit Retina.

Christopher M Whitaker, Gina Nobles, Munenori Ishibashi, Stephen C Massey

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  9. Stephen Massey: a career in visual neuroscience.Frontiers in ophthalmology · 2023
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  12. Progress on Designing a Chemical Retinal Prosthesis.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Christopher M WhitakerRuiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Gina NoblesRuiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Munenori IshibashiRuiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Stephen C MasseyRuiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

NEUROTRANSMITTER MECHANISMS IN THE RETINAR01EY006515 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MASSEY, STEPHEN C · 1985 to 2017
$7.0M
CONNECTIVITY PATTERNS OF RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLSR01EY010121 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MASSEY, STEPHEN C · 1999 to 2018
$4.6M
UTHouston Core Center for Vision ResearchP30EY028102 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MASSEY, STEPHEN C · 2017 to 2021
$3.1M
Rod/cone gap junctions initiate an irradiance pathwayR01EY029408 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MASSEY, STEPHEN C, RIBELAYGA, CHRISTOPHE P. · 2018 to 2022
$2.9M
The Synaptic Mechanism of Direction Selectivity in the RetinaF32EY021958 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI WHITAKER, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL · 2011 to 2013
$155k
NEI NIH HHS F32 EY021958NEI NIH HHS P30 EY028102NEI NIH HHS R01 EY006515NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010121NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029408
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rod and cone pathways are segregated in the first stage of the retina: cones synapse with both ON- and OFF-cone bipolar cells while rods contact only rod bipolar cells. However, there is an exception to this specific wiring in that rods also contact certain OFF cone bipolar cells, providing a tertiary rod pathway. Recently, it has been proposed that there is even more crossover between rod and cone pathways. Physiological recordings suggested that rod bipolar cells receive input from cones, and ON cone bipolar cells can receive input from rods, in addition to the established pathways. To image their rod and cone contacts, we have dye-filled individual rod bipolar cells in the rabbit retina. We report that approximately half the rod bipolar cells receive one or two cone contacts. Dye-filling AII amacrine cells, combined with subtractive labeling, revealed most of the ON cone bipolar cells to which they were coupled, including the occasional blue cone bipolar cell, identified by its contacts with blue cones. Imaging the AII-coupled ON cone bipolar dendrites in this way showed that they contact cones exclusively. We conclude that there is some limited cone input to rod bipolar cells, but we could find no evidence for rod contacts with ON cone bipolar cells. The tertiary rod OFF pathway operates

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AII amacrine cellbipolar cellconeretinarod

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PMID34025360
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