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ArticleiScience2022

Hierarchical partner selection shapes rod-cone pathway specificity in the inner retina.

Chi Zhang, Ayana Hellevik, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Rachel O Wong

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Article in iScience, 2022. 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
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chi ZhangDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Ayana HellevikDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Shunsuke TakeuchiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Rachel O WongDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
University of Washington · USThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

Vision Research CoreP30EY001730 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI JAMES Bryant HURLEY · 1985 to 2026
$23.5M
INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENTR01EY010699 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 1994 to 2024
$8.6M
Circuit Assembly in the Vertebrate Retina-SupplementR01EY017101 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WONG, RACHEL O · 2006 to 2020
$4.7M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001730NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010699NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons form stereotyped microcircuits that underlie specific functions. In the vertebrate retina, the primary rod and cone pathways that convey dim and bright light signals, respectively, exhibit distinct wiring patterns. Rod and cone pathways are thought to be assembled separately during development. However, using correlative fluorescence imaging and serial electron microscopy, we show here that cross-pathway interactions are involved to achieve pathway-specific connectivity within the inner retina. We found that A17 amacrine cells, a rod pathway-specific cellular component, heavily bias their synaptogenesis with rod bipolar cells (RBCs) but increase their connectivity with cone bipolar cells (CBCs) when RBCs are largely ablated. This cross-pathway synaptic plasticity occurs during synaptogenesis and is triggered even on partial loss of RBCs. Thus, A17 cells adopt a hierarchical approach in selecting postsynaptic partners from functionally distinct pathways (RBC>CBC), in which contact and/or synaptogenesis with preferred partners (RBCs) influences connectivity with less-preferred partners (CBCs).

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cell biologyexperimental systems for structural biologySensory neuroscience

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PMID36117987
PMCPMC9474917
OpenAlexW4293216990

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