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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 13, 期 9, 页码 1107-U102出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2617
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- Johns Hopkins University Mouse Tri-Lab
- US National Institutes of Health [GM076430, EY017606]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences
In mammals, synchronization of the circadian pacemaker in the hypothalamus is achieved through direct input from the eyes conveyed by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). Circadian photoentrainment can be maintained by rod and cone photoreceptors, but their functional contributions and their retinal circuits that impinge on ipRGCs are not well understood. Using mice that lack functional rods or in which rods are the only functional photoreceptors, we found that rods were solely responsible for photoentrainment at scotopic light intensities. Rods were also capable of driving circadian photoentrainment at photopic intensities at which they were incapable of supporting a visually guided behavior. Using mice in which cone photoreceptors were ablated, we found that rods signal through cones at high light intensities, but not at low light intensities. Thus, rods use two distinct retinal circuits to drive ipRGC function to support circadian photoentrainment across a wide range of light intensities.
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