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ArticleNeuron2025

Limited transmission of mixed convergent signals at the mouse retinogeniculate synapse.

Takuma Sonoda, Qiufen Jiang, Ivan Jara-Marquez, Hannah Radell, Héctor Acarón Ledesma, Wei Wei, Chinfei Chen

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Article in Neuron, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Takuma SonodaDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Qiufen JiangDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ivan Jara-MarquezDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Hannah RadellDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Héctor Acarón LedesmaDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Wei WeiDepartment of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Chinfei ChenDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: chinfei.chen@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Viral ModuleP30EY012196 · NEI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MARGARET S LIVINGSTONE · 1998 to 2026
$21.3M
Short-term plasticity of the retinogeniculate synapseR01EY013613 · NEI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Chinfei Chen · 2003 to 2026
$10.3M
Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI SCOTT Loren POMEROY, MUSTAFA SAHIN · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Supplement request for Training GrantT32NS007473 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Elizabeth C. Engle, Thomas L. Schwarz · 1999 to 2026
$6.9M
Dynamic interactions between synaptic and intrinsic properties of starburst amacrine cells for robust motion detectionR01EY035268 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Wei Wei · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Shared multi-photon confocal microscopeS10OD016453 · OD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, CHINFEI · 2013 to 2013
$495k
Shared High-resolution Laser Scanning Microscope with Airyscan 2S10OD030322 · OD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, CHINFEI · 2022 to 2022
$476k
Understanding the role of convergence at the retinogeniculate synapseF32EY033202 · NEI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI SONODA, TAKUMA · 2021 to 2022
$136k
NEI NIH HHS F32 EY033202NEI NIH HHS P30 EY012196NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013613NEI NIH HHS R01 EY035268NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105351NIH HHS S10 OD016453NIH HHS S10 OD030322NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007473
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are two broad modes of information transfer in the brain: the labeled line model, where neurons relay inputs they receive, and the mixed tuning model, where neurons transform different inputs. In the visual pathway, information transfer between retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) neurons is viewed as a labeled line. However, recent work in mice demonstrated that different RGC types, encoding distinct visual features, converge onto a dLGN neuron, raising the question of how the dLGN transforms visual information. Using optogenetics, we activated distinct RGC populations and measured dLGN neuron spiking in vivo. We found that visual response properties of strongly driven dLGN neurons largely match properties of the activated RGC population. While in vitro dual-opsin experiments demonstrate that strong functional convergence from distinct RGC types does occur at modest frequencies, our data largely support a labeled line model of retinogeniculate information transfer in mice.

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Geniculate BodiesRetinal Ganglion CellsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionVisual PathwaysAction PotentialsAnimalsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOptogeneticsPhotic Stimulationconvergenceinformation processingLGNretinogeniculatesensory integrationthalamocorticalthalamusvisual circuits

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PMID40695285
PMCPMC12422097

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