Sub-topographic maps for regionally enhanced analysis of visual space in the mouse retina.
Sub-topographic maps for regionally enhanced analysis of visual space in the mouse retina.
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小鼠视网膜中视觉空间的区域增强分析的子图形图。
DOI:
10.1002/cne.24457
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2019-01-01
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通讯作者:
Huberman AD
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作者:
El-Danaf RN;Huberman AD
In many species, neurons are unevenly distributed across the retina, leading to nonuniform analysis of specific visual features at certain locations in visual space. In recent years, the mouse has emerged as a premiere model for probing visual system function, development and disease. Thus, achieving a detailed understanding of mouse visual circuit architecture is of paramount importance. The general belief is that mice possess a relatively even topographic distribution of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs)- the output neurons of the eye. However, mouse RGCs include ~30 subtypes; each responds best to a specific feature in the visual scene and conveys that information to central targets. Given the crucial role of RGCs and the prominence of the mouse as a model, we asked how different RGC subtypes are distributed across the retina. We targeted and filled individual fluorescently tagged RGC subtypes from across the retinal surface and evaluated the dendritic arbor extent and soma size of each cell according to its specific retinotopic position. Three prominent RGC subtypes: On-Off direction selective RGCs, object-motion-sensitive RGCs, and a specialized subclass of non-image-forming RGCs each had marked topographic variations in their dendritic arbor sizes. Moreover, the pattern of variation was distinct for each RGC subtype. Thus, there is increasing evidence that the mouse retina encodes visual space in a region-specific manner. As a consequence, some visual features are sampled far more densely at certain retinal locations than others. These findings have implications for central visual processing, perception and behavior in this prominent model species. All visual information is processed through the activity of various subtypes of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). As a prominent model for studying the visual system, the mouse retina was thought to encode visual space in a uniform manner. Here, we discovered that three morphologically and functionally distinct subtypes of RGCs show distinct retinotopic organizations. Therefore, signals located in different portions of the visual space are conveyed and analyzed differently in the brain.
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