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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
卷 519, 期 4, 页码 759-774出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22546
关键词
parallel pathways; blue cone bipolar cell; bipolar cell classification; species comparison; CaB5; HCN4; CD15
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [HA 5277/2-2]
- NIH-NCRR [P40 RR012546]
Parallel processing of an image projected onto the retina starts at the first synapse, the cone pedicle, and each cone feeds its light signal into a minimum of eight different bipolar cell types.. Hence, the morphological classification of bipolar cells is a prerequisite for analyzing retinal circuitry. Here we applied common bipolar cell markers to the cone-dominated ground squirrel retina, studied the labeling by confocal microscopy and electron microscopy, and compared the resulting bipolar cell types with those of the mouse (rod dominated) and primate retina. Eight different cone bipolar cell types (three OFF and five ON) and one rod bipolar cell were distinguished. The major criteria for classifying the cells were their immunocytochemical identity, their dendritic branching pattern, and the shape and stratification level of their axons in the inner plexiform layer (IPL). Immunostaining with antibodies against G gamma 13, a marker for ON bipolar cells, made it possible to separate OFF and ON bipolars. Recoverin-positive OFF bipolar cells partly overlapped with ON bipolar axon terminals at the ON/OFF border of the IPL. Antibodies against HCN4 labeled the S-cone selective (bb) bipolar cell. The calcium-binding protein CaB5 was expressed in two OFF and two ON cone bipolar cell types, and CD15 labeled a widefield ON cone bipolar cell comparable to the DB6 in primate. J. Comp. Neurol. 519:759-774, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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