Photoresponse diversity among the five types of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
| Autor: | Zhao, Xiwu, Stafford, Ben K, Godin, Ashley L, King, W Michael, Wong, Kwoon Y |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Retinal Ganglion Cells Superior Colliculi Light Signal Transduction Light Green Fluorescent Proteins Motion Perception Contrast Sensitivity Mice Animals Visual Pathways Transducin Evoked Potentials Vision Ocular Mice Knockout Neuroscience: Behavioural/Systems/Cognitive Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits Kinetics Microscopy Fluorescence Multiphoton Pattern Recognition Visual Space Perception Visual Perception Female Visual Fields Photic Stimulation |
| Popis: | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) mediate non-image-forming visual responses, including pupillary constriction, circadian photoentrainment and suppression of pineal melatonin secretion. Five morphological types of ipRGCs, M1-M5, have been identified in mice. In order to understand their functions better, we studied the photoresponses of all five cell types, by whole-cell recording from fluorescently labelled ipRGCs visualized using multiphoton microscopy. All ipRGC types generated melanopsin-based ('intrinsic') as well as synaptically driven ('extrinsic') light responses. The intrinsic photoresponses of M1 cells were lower threshold, higher amplitude and faster than those of M2-M5. The peak amplitudes of extrinsic light responses differed among the ipRGC types; however, the responses of all cell types had comparable thresholds, kinetics and waveforms, and all cells received rod input. While all five types exhibited inhibitory amacrine-cell and excitatory bipolar-cell inputs from the 'on' channel, M1 and M3 received additional 'off'-channel inhibition, possibly through their 'off'-sublamina dendrites. The M2-M5 ipRGCs had centre-surround-organized receptive fields, implicating a capacity to detect spatial contrast. In contrast, the receptive fields of M1 cells lacked surround antagonism, which might be caused by the surround of the inhibitory input nullifying the surround of the excitatory input. All ipRGCs responded robustly to a wide range of motion speeds, and M1-M4 cells appeared tuned to different speeds, suggesting that they might analyse the speed of motion. Retrograde labelling revealed that M1-M4 cells project to the superior colliculus, suggesting that the contrast and motion information signalled by these cells could be used by this sensorimotor area to detect novel objects and motion in the visual field. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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