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CELL REPORTS
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110317
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- NIH [P30 EY002162, EY029772]
- McKnight Scholar Award
- Research to Prevent Blindness
- That Man May See
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Neural circuits can modify to adapt to changing inputs. This study shows that the excitatory pathways in the retina experience functional loss when there is partial cone death or partial light stimulation, while the inhibitory pathways can recover functionally by increasing spatiotemporal integration.
Neural circuits function in the face of changing inputs, either caused by normal variation in stimuli or by cell death. To maintain their ability to perform essential computations with partial inputs, neural circuits make modifications. Here, we study the retinal circuit's responses to changes in light stimuli or in photoreceptor inputs by inducing partial cone death in the mature mouse retina. Can the retina withstand or recover from input loss? We find that the excitatory pathways exhibit functional loss commensurate with cone death and with some aspects predicted by partial light stimulation. However, inhibitory pathways recover functionally from lost input by increasing spatiotemporal integration in away that is not recapitulated by partially stimulating the control retina. Anatomically, inhibitory synapses are upregulated on secondary bipolar cells and output ganglion cells. These findings demonstrate the greater capacity for inhibition, compared with excitation, to modify spatiotemporal processing with fewer cone inputs.
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