2020
Connectomic analysis reveals an interneuron with an integral role in the retinal circuit for night vision
Park SJ, Lieberman EE, Ke JB, Rho N, Ghorbani P, Rahmani P, Jun NY, Lee HL, Kim IJ, Briggman KL, Demb JB, Singer JH. Connectomic analysis reveals an interneuron with an integral role in the retinal circuit for night vision. ELife 2020, 9: e56077. PMID: 32412412, PMCID: PMC7228767, DOI: 10.7554/elife.56077.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAII amacrine cellsProjection neuronsSingle interneuron typeConnectomic analysisBipolar cell pathwaysNovel neural circuitGABAergic cellsAmacrine cellsCentral neuronsGanglion cellsSynaptic layersRetinal circuitsInterneuron typesSurround inhibitionMouse retinaNight visionON responseExcitatory centerOptogenetic analysesNeural circuitsInhibitory surroundCell pathwaysRod photoreceptorsReceptive fieldsRb pathway
2013
Two-Photon Imaging of Nonlinear Glutamate Release Dynamics at Bipolar Cell Synapses in the Mouse Retina
Borghuis BG, Marvin JS, Looger LL, Demb JB. Two-Photon Imaging of Nonlinear Glutamate Release Dynamics at Bipolar Cell Synapses in the Mouse Retina. Journal Of Neuroscience 2013, 33: 10972-10985. PMID: 23825403, PMCID: PMC3718381, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1241-13.2013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInner plexiform layerGanglion cellsPlexiform layerY-type retinal ganglion cellsY-type ganglion cellsPresynaptic bipolar cellsBipolar cell outputBipolar cell synapsesRetinal ganglion cellsWhole-cell recordingsPostsynaptic ganglion cellsIntact neural circuitsReceptive field propertiesPresynaptic release sitesBipolar terminalsGlutamate releaseGlutamate synapsesSynaptic basisCell synapsesBipolar cellsExcitatory currentsSurround inhibitionMouse retinaTwo-photon imagingIndependent release