Publication Date:
2008-04-25
Description:
Rod and cone photoreceptors detect light and relay this information through a multisynaptic pathway to the brain by means of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). These retinal outputs support not only pattern vision but also non-image-forming (NIF) functions, which include circadian photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex (PLR). In mammals, NIF functions are mediated by rods, cones and the melanopsin-containing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). Rod-cone photoreceptors and ipRGCs are complementary in signalling light intensity for NIF functions. The ipRGCs, in addition to being directly photosensitive, also receive synaptic input from rod-cone networks. To determine how the ipRGCs relay rod-cone light information for both image-forming and non-image-forming functions, we genetically ablated ipRGCs in mice. Here we show that animals lacking ipRGCs retain pattern vision but have deficits in both PLR and circadian photoentrainment that are more extensive than those observed in melanopsin knockouts. The defects in PLR and photoentrainment resemble those observed in animals that lack phototransduction in all three photoreceptor classes. These results indicate that light signals for irradiance detection are dissociated from pattern vision at the retinal ganglion cell level, and animals that cannot detect light for NIF functions are still capable of image formation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871301/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871301/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Guler, Ali D -- Ecker, Jennifer L -- Lall, Gurprit S -- Haq, Shafiqul -- Altimus, Cara M -- Liao, Hsi-Wen -- Barnard, Alun R -- Cahill, Hugh -- Badea, Tudor C -- Zhao, Haiqing -- Hankins, Mark W -- Berson, David M -- Lucas, Robert J -- Yau, King-Wai -- Hattar, Samer -- R01 DC006904/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC006904-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC006904-02/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC006904-03/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC006904-04/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY006837/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY006837-16A1/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY006837-18/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY006837-20A1/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY006837-21/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-01/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-02/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-03/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-04/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-05/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014596-06/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY017137/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM076430-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 May 1;453(7191):102-5. doi: 10.1038/nature06829. Epub 2008 Apr 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18432195" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain/cytology/metabolism
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Circadian Rhythm/physiology/radiation effects
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Cues
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Electroretinography
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Light
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Knockout
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Motor Activity/physiology
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Pupil/physiology/radiation effects
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Reflex/physiology/radiation effects
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Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells/*metabolism
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Retinal Ganglion Cells/*cytology/*metabolism
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Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells/*metabolism
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Rod Opsins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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Vision, Ocular/*physiology/radiation effects
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Visual Acuity/physiology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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