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ANNUAL REVIEW OF VISION SCIENCE, VOL 7, 2021
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 43-72Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-vision-032621-075200
Keywords
amacrine cell; bipolar cell; horizontal cell; Muller glia; photoreceptor; retinal ganglion cell
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- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- National Institutes of Health [R00EY028625, R01EY022073, R37NS029169]
- University of California at Berkeley
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This article outlines recent studies using high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing to generate retinal atlases, which have enhanced our understanding of retinal function, cell responses, gene expression patterns, and neural diversity throughout the brain.
It has been known for over a century that the basic organization of the retina is conserved across vertebrates. It has been equally clear that retinal cells can be classified into numerous types, but only recently have methods been devised to explore this diversity in unbiased, scalable, and comprehensive ways. Advances in high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) have played a pivotal role in this effort. In this article, we outline the experimental and computational components of scRNA-seq and review studies that have used them to generate retinal atlases of cell types in several vertebrate species. These atlases have enabled studies of retinal development, responses of retinal cells to injury, expression patterns of genes implicated in retinal disease, and the evolution of cell types. Recently, the inquiry has expanded to include the entire eye and visual centers in the brain. These studies have enhanced our understanding of retinal function and dysfunction and provided tools and insights for exploring neural diversity throughout the brain.
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