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A Complete Spatial Map of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells Reveals Density and Gene Expression Specializations.

Samuel A Budoff, Alon Poleg-Polsky

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors.

Samuel A BudoffUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Aurora, 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2279-9004
Alon Poleg-PolskyUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Aurora, 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1327-5129

Funding

University of Colorado Cancer Center Support Grant - Lung Cancer Patient-Derived Xenografts with Autologous Human Immune SystemsP30CA046934 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI James V Degregori · 1988 to 2026
$117.0M
Mechanisms of direction selectivity in starburst amacrine cellsR01EY030841 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI POLEG-POLSKY, ALON · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
Novel experimental and machine learning - assisted techniques to assess receptive field functionality in the retinaR01EY035293 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Alon Poleg-Polsky · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA046934NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030841NEI NIH HHS R01 EY035293
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Abstract

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) transmit visual information from the eye to the brain. In mice, several RGC subtypes show nonuniform spatial distributions, potentially mediating specific visual functions. However, the full extent of RGC specialization remains unknown. Here, we used en-face cryosectioning, spatial transcriptomics, and machine learning to map the spatial distribution of all RGC subtypes identified in previous single-cell studies. While two-thirds of RGC subtypes were evenly distributed, others showed strong biases toward ventral or dorso-temporal regions associated with sky vision and the area retinae temporalis (ART), the predicted homolog of the area centralis. Additionally, we observed unexpected spatial variation in gene expression within several subtypes along the dorso-ventral axis or within vs. outside the ART, independent of RGC density profiles. Finally, we found limited correlations between the gene profiles of the ART and the primate macula, suggesting divergent specialization between the mouse and primate central vision.

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