ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2024
Comparison of modulation efficiency between normal and degenerated primate retina.
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With electrical stimulation, retinal prostheses bypass dysfunctional photoreceptors and activate the surviving bipolar or retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Therefore, the effective modulation of RGCs is crucial for developing retinal prostheses. Substantial research has been performed on the ability of an electrical stimulus to generate a reliable RGC response. However, different experimental conditions show varying levels of how well the electrical stimulation evokes RGC spikes. Therefore, in this study, we attempted to extract an indicator to understand how the electrical stimulation effectively evokes RGC spikes. Six cynomolgus monkeys were used: three as controls and three as an N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU)-induced retinal degeneration model. The retinal recordings were performed using 8 × 8 multi-electrode arrays (MEAs). Electrical stimulation consisted of symmetrical biphasic pulses of varying amplitudes and durations. The number of stimulation conditions that resulted in significantly higher post-stimulation firing rates than pre-stimulus firing rates was defined as the modulation efficiency ratio (MER). The MER was significantly lower in degenerated retinas than in normal retinas. We investigated the relationship between the variables and the MER in normal and degenerated primate RGCs. External variables, such as duration and inter-electrode distance, and internal variables, such as average firing rates and statistics (mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation [CV]) of inter-spike intervals (ISIs) of spontaneous spikes, were used. External variables had similar effects on MER in normal and degenerated RGCs. In contrast, internal variables affected MER differently in normal and degenerated RGCs. While in normal RGCs, they were not related to MER, in degenerated RGCs, the mean ISIs were positively correlated with MER, and the CV of ISIs was negatively correlated with MER. The most important variable affecting MER was the mean ISI. A shorter ISI indicates hyperactive firing in the degenerated retina, which prevents electrical stimulation from evoking more RGCs. We believe that this hyperactivity in degenerated retinas results in a lower MER than that in the normal retina. Our findings can be used to optimize the selection of stimulation channels for
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