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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 12, 期 3, 页码 295-302出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2258
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- Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness
- Karl Kirchgessner Foundation
- NIH [EY 019312, EY 01157, EY 02687]
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University
Daytime vision is mediated by retinal cones, which, unlike rods, remain functional even in bright light and dark-adapt rapidly. These cone properties are enabled by rapid regeneration of their pigment. This in turn requires rapid chromophore recycling that may not be achieved by the canonical retinal pigment epithelium visual cycle. Recent biochemical studies have suggested the presence of a second, cone-specific visual cycle, although its physiological function remains to be established. We found that the Muller cells in the salamander neural retina promote cone-specific pigment regeneration and dark adaptation that are independent of the pigment epithelium. Without this pathway, dark adaptation of cones was slow and incomplete. Notably, the rates of cone pigment regeneration by the retina and pigment epithelium visual cycles were essentially identical, suggesting a possible common rate-limiting step. Finally, we also observed cone dark adaptation in the isolated mouse retina.
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