Components and properties of the G3 ganglion cell circuit in the rabbit retina
| Autor: | Hideo Hoshi, Stephen L. Mills |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Retinal Ganglion Cells
Calbindins Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase Dopamine Giant retinal ganglion cells Biology Connexins Retina Article Parasol cell Amacrine cell S100 Calcium Binding Protein G medicine Animals Humans Visual Pathways Cell Shape gamma-Aminobutyric Acid General Neuroscience Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells Gap Junctions Bistratified cell Retinal waves Cell biology Amacrine Cells medicine.anatomical_structure Midget cell Synapses Rabbits sense organs Nerve Net Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 513:69-82 |
| ISSN: | 1096-9861 0021-9967 |
| Popis: | Each point on the retina is sampled by about 15 types of ganglion cell, each of which is an element in a circuit also containing specific types of bipolar cell and amacrine cell. Only a few of these circuits are well characterized. We found that intracellular injection of Neurobiotin into a specific ganglion cell type targeted by fluorescent markers also stained an asymmetrically branching ganglion cell. It was also tracer-coupled to an unusual type of amacrine cell whose dendrites were strongly asymmetric, coursing in a narrow bundle from the soma in the dorsal direction only. The dendritic field of the ganglion cell stratifies initially in sublamina b (the ON layers), but with few specializations and branches, and then more extensively in sublamina a (the OFF layers) at the level of the processes of the coupled amacrine cell. Intersections of the ganglion and amacrine cell processes contain puncta immunopositive for Cx36. Additionally, we found that the dopaminergic amacrine cell makes contact with both the ganglion cell and the amacrine cell, and that a bipolar cell immunopositive for calbindin synapses onto the sublamina b processes of the ganglion cell. Dopamine D(1) receptor activation reduced tracer flow to the amacrine cells. We have thus targeted and characterized two poorly understood retinal cell types and placed them with two other cell types in a substantial portion of a new retinal circuit. This unique circuit comprised of pronounced asymmetries in the ganglion cell and amacrine cell dendritic fields may result in a substantial orientation bias. |
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