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ELIFE
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.81533
Keywords
starburst amacrine cells; retinal circuitry; direction selectivity; iGluSnFR; bipolar cells; space-time wiring; Mouse
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [159444, 638730]
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In this study, the input kinetics across individual starburst dendrites were directly measured using a two-photon glutamate sensor. The study found that signals from proximal dendrites were relatively sustained, mainly influenced by excitatory network interactions. Computational modeling demonstrated the importance of input kinetics in shaping direction selectivity. These results provide support for the "space-time wiring" model.
The asymmetric summation of kinetically distinct glutamate inputs across the dendrites of retinal 'starburst' amacrine cells is one of the several mechanisms that have been proposed to underlie their direction-selective properties, but experimentally verifying input kinetics has been a challenge. Here, we used two-photon glutamate sensor (iGluSnFR) imaging to directly measure the input kinetics across individual starburst dendrites. We found that signals measured from proximal dendrites were relatively sustained compared to those measured from distal dendrites. These differences were observed across a range of stimulus sizes and appeared to be shaped mainly by excitatory rather than inhibitory network interactions. Temporal deconvolution analysis suggests that the steady-state vesicle release rate was similar to 3 times larger at proximal sites compared to distal sites. Using a connectomics-inspired computational model, we demonstrate that input kinetics play an important role in shaping direction selectivity at low stimulus velocities. Taken together, these results provide direct support for the 'space-time wiring' model for direction selectivity.
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