Retinal Connectomics: A Review

CL Sigulinsky, RL Pfeiffer… - Annual Review of Vision …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The retina is an ideal model for understanding the fundamental rules for how neural
networks are constructed. The compact neural networks of the retina perform all of the initial …

[HTML][HTML] Layers of inhibitory networks shape receptive field properties of AII amacrine cells

A Nath, WN Grimes, JS Diamond - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
In the retina, rod and cone pathways mediate visual signals over a billion-fold range in
luminance. AII (" A-two") amacrine cells (ACs) receive signals from both pathways via …

Subcellular pathways through VGluT3-expressing mouse amacrine cells provide locally tuned object-motion-selective signals in the retina

K Friedrichsen, JC Hsiang, CI Lin, L McCoy… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
VGluT3-expressing mouse retinal amacrine cells (VG3s) respond to small-object motion and
connect to multiple types of bipolar cells (inputs) and retinal ganglion cells (RGCs, outputs) …

Spatial distribution and functional integration of displaced retinal ganglion cells

S Duda, CT Block, DR Pradhan, Y Arzhangnia… - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
The retina contains distinct types of ganglion cells, which form mosaics with cells of each
type at each position of the visual field. Displaced retinal ganglion cells (dRGCs) occur with …

New insights into retinal circuits through EM connectomics: what we have learnt and what remains to be learned

A Sawant, A Saha, J Khoussine, R Sinha… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The retinal neural circuit is intricately wired for efficient processing of visual signals. This is
well-supported by the specialized connections between retinal neurons at both the …

Spatial distribution and functional integration of displaced ipRGCs

S Duda, CT Block, DR Pradhan, Y Arzhangnia… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The mammalian retina contains many distinct types of ganglion cells, which form mosaics to
evenly tile the retina with cells of each type at each position of the visual field. It is well …

Retinal bipolar cells borrow excitability from electrically coupled inhibitory interneurons to amplify excitatory synaptic transmission

SC Yadav, L Ganzen, S Nawy, RH Kramer - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bipolar cells of the retina carry visual information from photoreceptors in the outer retina to
retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the inner retina. Bipolar cells express L-type voltage-gated …

Molecular identification of wide-field amacrine cells in mouse retina that encode stimulus orientation

SJ Park, W Lei, J Pisano, A Orpia, J Minehart… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Visual information processing is sculpted by a diverse group of inhibitory interneurons in the
retina called amacrine cells. Yet, for most of the> 60 amacrine cell types, molecular identities …

Dendritic morphology of an inhibitory retinal interneuron enables simultaneous local and global synaptic integration

E Hartveit, ML Veruki, BJ Zandt - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - jneurosci.org
Amacrine cells, inhibitory interneurons of the retina, feature synaptic inputs and outputs in
close proximity throughout their dendritic trees, making them notable exceptions to …

Special nuclear layer contacts between starburst amacrine cells in the mouse retina

S Mu, NL Turner, WM Silversmith, CS Jordan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Starburst amacrine cells are a prominent neuron type in the mammalian retina that has been
well-studied for its role in direction-selective information processing. One specific property of …